The Pete Quiñones Show - The Complete Francis Parker Yockey Episodes w/ Paul Fahrenheidt

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

9 Hours and 33 MinutesPG-13This is the audio to the eight episodes Paul and Pete recorded covering Francis Parker Yockey's writings.Episodes: 742, 752, 787, 888, 938, 979, 980, and 983.Old Glory Club ...YouTube ChannelOld Glory Club SubstackPete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's Substack Pete's SubscribestarPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I want to welcome everyone back to the Piquino show. Today, I am here with Paul Farenthight. How are you doing? Doing very well, Pete. Thank you for having me on. Whenever somebody appears for the first time, I always ask them to tell a little bit about themselves. So as much as you want to give.
Starting point is 00:00:18 Of course. Well, many of your listeners who are unfamiliar with me, a couple of the key things is that I was born and raised right outside of, of the imperial capital of what we now call the global American empire and my whole life I've pretty much spent around federal government types contractors
Starting point is 00:00:40 under secretaries I went to school with the children of senators and you know State Department officials and all that so like you know especially in Virginia that is the that is the you know the big thing once you get up in the region in northern
Starting point is 00:00:55 Virginia that I come from and you know growing up I was kind of a neocons neocon and as many were and just coming around in 2016 with Donald Trump I just started shifting and and questioning and internet culture and particularly like the 4chan meme culture started getting me into this right wing thing and I kind of I've been kind of consuming content in the background for pretty much my entire adult life, if not before my adult life, since I was in high school, really. And only recently have I started to do any sort of what's called content creation. You know, for those of you who are
Starting point is 00:01:42 unaware, I am a substack writer. I don't really tend to flatter myself by calling myself an outright writer. I am a substack writer. And I put out articles once a week. My most recent article was on the South and it was released to a very good reception. But I don't just write nonfiction. I write short stories. I write poems. I've actually, my mentor, Thomas 777, I've written a story set in his Steelstorm universe that many people liked. And I write poetry. I, you know, and I try to put as much of it out on my substack as possible. In addition, I've done some writing for a up-and-coming online publication called Praxarkey. That's P.R. R-A-X-A-R-C-H-Y.com, where you can find, actually, you can find one of my articles on
Starting point is 00:02:33 Yaki himself in his conception of race and several other things, parallelism, Spanglarian Theory, and the like. I have a Twitter, which, you know, most people can find me on. But I am, I'm really just a serial guest. I don't have any massive audio content other than my own podcast. But that's kind of a general picture. I mean, I forgot to mention I served in the United States military for a couple of years, which I, which I did, removed over the vaccine mandate. I saw the collapse of Kabul in 2021 from a God's eye view. I saw everything. And, you know, that's kind of this sort of crossing of experiences, you know, even though I'm a bit of a younger man and a newer up-and-coming content creator in this thing, I try to bring, you know, the perspectives I have and
Starting point is 00:03:20 the perspectives I hear from people better than me to try to, you know, bring the truth out and demonstrate what, why we're all here and why we all like take the risk of, of having these ideas and these views. So that's, that's kind of generally me in a nutshell. And you seem to write a lot about Americana. Yes. Yes. Culture. More so not just, not just culture, because for me, Americana is a metaphysical thing. You know, America is a spiritual concept more than it's just a nation. Like, you know, God manifests his will through various ways. And I believe the creation and in many ways the degradation or the allowance of degradation of nations is one of the ways that God manifests creation on earth. And, you know, for me, I believe that America is,
Starting point is 00:04:20 vital, at least in this current time, in order to the act of continuing creation. Therefore, in order to know this most, what I think is the most vital thing on planet Earth, America, I try to understand it through every possible angle you can, whether that's culture, whether that's language, whether that's sociology and society, whether that's literature, whether it's music or architecture or cuisine or geography or folk tales or all of that everything media even even the most kind of profane and and soulless sort of media productions you can kind of find a reflection of America in it as as corrupted and base as it is and this is I think beyond vital in order to properly understand the place that America has in the world and the sort of destiny it has to
Starting point is 00:05:14 fulfill. And that's why I focus on it so much because to me it's a well that never seems to end in terms of giving insight and teaching us, teaching us in these fears why we do these things and why we believe these things. Awesome. Thank you. That was a great explanation of that I've heard you talk about before on Thomas's show. But the, yeah thank you thank you all right I invited you on because recently I sat down and read a print book for the first time and like well I read print books all the time but they're usually short I sat down and read a print book for a 600 page book for the first time in a very long time and it floored me and I didn't know much about the author beforehand but I quickly got to know a lot about him And like you had mentioned before we started recording, I was just like throwing quotes out there. I was taking pictures of pages and putting them on Twitter and just taking random quotes and putting them on Twitter. What do you know of the man, like just his life, Francis Parker Yaki?
Starting point is 00:06:34 Yes. So Francis Parker Yaki is, to call him interesting, would be an understatement. You know, the man himself, he was born in Chicago. September 18th, 1917, to a Swiss-German and Irish background. He was raised in the Catholic tradition. I don't believe he was practicing. And he grew up through sort of the post-war period of the United States, watching the general degradation of it. He was a concert-level piano player.
Starting point is 00:07:11 He was a brilliant piano player. And he could have easily done that. And Willis Cardo talks about this in the introduction to the 1960 version. I don't think it was 1960, but the second edition of Imperium, the cover that most people will know. And Yaki got into a car crash and his youth that kind of prevented him from being able to play piano as well as he used to. And a little anecdote that comes from this period when he was playing piano was that he was. he was at some college dean's house and he you know i guess he just started playing the international on that dean's piano and he got kicked out and uh and so uh kevin kugin who's this
Starting point is 00:07:57 a crank biographer in in the 90s while writing stuff about um francis park or yaki uh takes this and basically takes the conclusion from that that oh he was a communist in his youth which i think is complete and utter nonsense. I mean, I think, I think, you know, Yaki was just a troublemaker like a lot of, you know, young men are. And he just, he just wanted to cause some mischief. And so that's, I guess that's the, that was one of the easiest ways to do that in the, in the, in the wake of the first red scare. But, um, but yes, Yaki attended, you know, a number, like almost, I think, seven or eight different colleges. Um, you know, eventually, he eventually graduated from Arizona State.
Starting point is 00:08:42 his undergrad. And then he went to Notre Dame for his law school. These are kind of the two most important ones he went to. And he graduated law school from Notre Dame Cum Laude in the 1930s, which is extremely impressive. That was back when, that was back when standards for law school were extremely high. I think his IQ was tested somewhere around 170, which is like genius level. that's far beyond genius oh yes that's two standard there's two standard deviation deviations above genius yes and um he he he was just extremely competent and pretty much everything i mean except for being tall because he was five foot eight um but he uh whether it was law he he never lost a case i i legit in the in the years i think in the in the decade at which he was a trial attorney
Starting point is 00:09:39 in the greater Chicago land area, he mostly did cases on insurance, but I don't think he lost a single case that he argued. And oftentimes he would, if he didn't have political motivations, he would actually try to self-sabotage himself as much as possible in order to sort of keep, in this weird sort of monasticism, because he lived entirely politically. He would try to self-sabotage himself while arguing cases that did not have any ties to his politics. And his politics, you know, one of the interesting things about America in the 1930s that often kind of gets brushed over, especially in U.S. history classes, at least not ten, at least not in a tangential way. But largely throughout the public's perception was that in the 1930s,
Starting point is 00:10:31 you had a ton, a ton of what we would call far-right organizations today that were just everywhere widespread and socially accepted. You know, you had Charles Limburg's America First Movement in the order of 76. You had the Deutsche Americana Shabund, which was, even in its day, kind of looked at as like a bit of a bit of Kraut sympathizers, but they were socially accepted. You had Bill Pelley's Silver Legion. you had the Black Legion, which was a clan offshoot in the Midwest. You had the clan itself. You had, you know, talking about religious organizations.
Starting point is 00:11:11 You know, the Masons were very politically active and they were, you know, they tended to be very right wing, at least in behavior, if not in Numa, intention. Knights of Columbus as well. You had, but, you know, and you had just all these, you know, Hughie Long, Father Charles Colan, whose radio show, I believe, garnered, three million. It was either three million or 30 million. It was one or the other. Either way, it was the most popular radio show in America. And, you know, his radio show was literally just railing against what he called the money changes and the bankers, which is a certain
Starting point is 00:11:47 group of people. And this was, this was like the most popular radio show in America at the time. And, you know, you had father Charles Smith. You had Huey Long in Louisville. Louisiana running his sort of populist opposition to the mainstream Democrats. You had the precursors to the Dixiecrats. I could keep going on and on and on and just listing all of these things, all of these movements, all of these parties that existed in the United States in the 1930s that were explicitly right wing. And what happens after 1939, Thomas has explained in your in your show with how the U.S. entered in Pearl Harbor, you know, Lindberg said Roosevelt got us in through the back door. And so, as, you know, the United States was now at war with the, quote-unquote, far-right world, well, all of those fifth columnists at home needed to be smoked out. And so after the Second World War and the sort of beginning of the social engineering of the Nuremberg World Order, you see all of these, you know, home-grown, and native movements in the United States that were completely normal, that were completely
Starting point is 00:13:02 accepted, and that were generally engaged with, all of a sudden are wiped off the face of the earth. And Yaqui himself, he existed actually at both ends of these. In the 30s, he was young up and comer. And in the 50s, he was very much sort of one of the only figures after the war who, you know, had the courage or a foolhardiness, I suppose, to keep up holding these ideas. In the 30s, he largely did writing and speaking. He appeared at a America First Convention under the pseudonym Francis Parker. He was billed as a international law expert from the University of Virginia, both of which were lies. I mean, actually, no, the latter was a lie. The former was true because yaki probably understood international law oxymoron as that is better than
Starting point is 00:13:58 anyone um in addition his first um his first written piece was published in father colin's periodical called social justice um i forget the title of that piece but um but yaki yaki and he he did legal work for the silver legion he did legal work for the ducho americana scha bund and you know all throughout the 1930s, he was very, very active in these far-right political circles. Come the war, he tries to stay out of it, but after 1941, he did kind of what was expected of every man at that time socially, which was enlist in the United States Army. He enlisted in the 42nd infantry division in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sent to basic training, underwent that. I don't, I do not know what specific job training he got while he was in the
Starting point is 00:14:58 army. Because, you know, if you go into like these dog tag databases, you can actually find his name. His serial number is known. His rank was private because he enlisted. But after he undergoes this initial training period, he goes AWOL for about four to five months down in Mexico. And what he was doing was that even as early as in the 1930s, he was turning himself into one of these OSS intelligence types. Another notable man who was a confidon of Yaqui, very similar sort of worldview and pedigree is H. Keith Thompson, Harold Keith Thompson, who was another one of these very far-right figures. He was in correspondence with European royalty, Old Money, New York type waspy he joined the united states military during the war and um and the whole time h keith
Starting point is 00:15:56 thompson was a a double agent he he was a i think he was taken on by a s d which was s s intelligence and um actually later in his life he would never swore oaths of loyalty because you know he said that he only ever wanted to swore one oath of loyalty in in his life and that was to Adolf Hitler. And H. Keith Thompson becomes a very close confident of Yaki around this time and even later on. But basically, Yaki, after getting back from being AWOL, he kind of tricks this army psychiatrist into giving him a medical discharge, you know, off of psychological reasons or whatever. And then for the rest of the war, he goes around the country providing intelligence to what we would call access intelligence assets. He went to, he was in Peru with an Italian intelligence agent giving information on U.S. merchant shipping.
Starting point is 00:17:06 It is very likely that Yaqui actively contributed to the success of the Kriegs Marine during the Wolfpack part of the war for the Atlantic. because the Kriegs Marine was very, very able to coordinate with these intelligence assets and understand where these U.S. merchant convoys were coming. Because as Thomas pointed out, you know, after Len Lease, the United States was essentially in the war in all but name. We were escorting these British fleets with U.S. merchant ships and U.S. Navy assets. And so, you know, the Kriegs Marine did exactly what I believe was, right and proper in that situation. But after the war, you know, Yaki returns to, he's in Chicago,
Starting point is 00:17:53 he's a well-known lawyer. And right around when Nuremberg starts picking up, Yaki is a relative unknown by the United States government. He's actually kind of a small fish. And they don't really, they don't really know much of his background. So they needed all of the lawyers that they could have gotten for the Nuremberg trials. And Yaki, among men, any others was hired to kind of write trial reports. He wasn't on the ground arguing, or in the courtroom, rather, arguing evidence. But he was there to write trial reports for the second string Nuremberg trials, like the doctor's trial and other such, you know, lesser, you know, tier two Nazis, or second string Nazis, as they were called. During this time, he befriends General
Starting point is 00:18:45 Otto Riemer, who is the single individual responsible for saving Hitler's life during Operation Valkyrie because he was the one in command of, I think, the Vermacht Reserve at the time. I could be wrong on this, but he actually, he is a, if you've seen the Tom Cruise movie, he is actually in the movie. He is who Himmler shows up. It's his headquarters that Himmler shows up at, and he is the one who decided not to carry out the order to mobilize the Fairmacht Reserve to arrest all of the SS people and essentially coup the Nazi government. And so, and so Yaki very much befriends, Yaki speaks fluent German. He spoke several languages, I think. And, and he befriends General Riemer and, you know, does everything, but, like,
Starting point is 00:19:31 and, like, gives him evidence and, and, and, and works with him and several, several other individuals from this sort of third-right crowd. Because, uh, Yaki, and, you know, And you'll see this in some of his earlier writings, but Yaki kind of saw the whole thing as just one big scam, one big degradation, desecration of law. It was a joke to make an understatement. It was literally ex post facto, you're guilty of laws. We are now making up, you know, garing, of all people, I think, did the best to kind of just dismantle the entire. argument. That's why he, you know, Thomas will talk about this as well, but like, you know, Nuremberg was such a joke in how the, um, the United States judge, Judge Advocate
Starting point is 00:20:22 General Corps and the civilian lawyers they brought over were just, you know, climbing fences halfway through trials, um, making up evidence. It was a kangaroo court, if there ever was one. And Yaki would not kind of, uh, he would not stick with the message. He wouldn't write trial reports the way that his superiors wanted him to. So he, you know, he was kind of given an ultimatum. It was just like, well, write these reports the way we want you to write them or get the hell out. And he's like, all right, well, I'll see you. And so this is around, I think, 1946.
Starting point is 00:21:02 So he goes to England. He's making travels all across Europe at this time, working with what would later, elements that would later become Otto Riemers Socialist Reichs Parti, which was, you know, the best way to describe it was almost exactly the Nazi party immediately after Nuremberg. And it got, I think, something like 30% electoral support in the first election. It was the first party banned by the German federal government under the joke of a constitution that is the Grun Gazettes. But he makes acquaintance with Oswald Mosley and several of the
Starting point is 00:21:42 former individuals within the British Union of fascists. And in 1948, Yaki goes to British Bay, Ireland, a very isolated village with a single hotel. And over the course of, I think, a year, a little bit less than a year, without notes, writes that 600-page paperback, I believe you read, Imperium, entirely from memory, entirely off the top of his head. and takes it and presents it to Sir Oswald Mosley, and he says to him, I will publish this under your name. And Mosley kind of looks at him and he says, thank you very much. I appreciate the compliment, but no. And Mosley never read Imperium. He never even glanced at the thing Yaqui was offering. But several of his underlings did. Several of his, of his fellow, of his fellow travelers,
Starting point is 00:22:45 of his confidants, looked through Imperium and said to Mosley, what the hell are you doing? This is brilliant. This is, this is amazing. This is revolutionary. And you're, you're just kind of spitting in this guy's face. And this is kind of, this is one of the primary events that kind of caused the, um, the irrelevancy of Mosley post-war. Um, because he, he, you know, he was, is very much willing to get with the program of the NATO agenda and the anti-Soviet sentiment. So, Yaki publishes it under his, under a pseudonym, Ulick Varange. And only, I think, a thousand copies were ran of the first edition. I have never seen nor laid hands on a first edition edition of,
Starting point is 00:23:36 of Imperium, but it was published in two volumes. The first one was bound in, I think, brown leather. The second one was bound in a black leather. But they are exceedingly rare. And Imperial, but they all sold out within like two weeks of publishing. And, and, okay, so after this, Yaqui goes around and kind of turns himself into this self-made, homespun intelligence asset. He works anywhere and everywhere for anyone that he believes will support his political views.
Starting point is 00:24:19 He goes to Egypt and works for Gamal Abdul al-Nasur, who was, who was, you know, head of the anti-British, I think they were the Arab nationalists. Forgive me, Middle Eastern history is not one of my areas of specialty, but I do. know a little bit of Nassar and Yaki starts publishing this anti-Zionist propaganda because this is around the time when the state of Israel is being set up you have the war for Israeli independence and and Yaki greatly grew to admire Nassar like he very much he saw in Nassar kind of the type of man that he believed was needed to stand again this this this growing what we what we would eventually call global homo. But he doesn't stay with Nassar for more than, I think, a year or so.
Starting point is 00:25:10 He picks up and then he, I think actually vis-à-vis Nassar doing him a couple of favors, he was able to get behind the Iron Curtain. He was present, like in the courtroom, watching the Slansky trials, which is when the Czechoslovak government convicted 11, there were 12 people on trial and 11 of them were Jewish. And so the Czech government convicted these 11 Jews as being traitorous and corrupt. And it was over the course of that trial, and I believe his extended stay within the behind the Iron Curtain, that Yaqui came to the conclusion that the Soviet Union was the lesser evil as compared to the growing United States Empire. And he talks about why,
Starting point is 00:26:03 in the book Imperium itself. But his correspondence kind of drops off after he goes behind the Iron Curtain, because obviously if you're, if you're U.S. national and you're working behind the scenes in, you know, for your nation's primary geopolitical adversary, obviously you would not be writing things down. And that which you would be would be very quickly disposed of. So he leaves the Iron Curse. right um thomas believes and i i agree with him that i'm uh that he became an asset either for
Starting point is 00:26:40 czechoslovak or east german intelligence um this whole time he's publishing pamphlets in german he's having his printing presses raided and destroyed by the germ by the west german police um he's he's trying to keep up networks of um of friendly people politically but um he's flying back into the States in 1960. And he flies into, believe, Los Angeles Airport. And his suitcase gets sent to the wrong place. So the airline attendants open up the suitcase to determine whose it is. And they find I think five or six passports, several different identifications, names, information, all this other stuff. And so Yaki, who's staying at a friend of his, a Jewish rabbi actually in Oakland is arrested and brought to the San Francisco County Jail in which he is brought before. He's held
Starting point is 00:27:45 for a $15,000 bail, which is ludicrous for passport fraud. I have read through the, I think all six volumes of the FBI's files on the individual Francis Parker Yaki. And this was intentional. This was, this was very intentional. They were keeping tabs on him for a very long time interviewing his close friends, his family, character associates, and all that. And he, once they got him for that, they, I think they knew that they weren't, weren't going to let him go. And I think he knew that they weren't going to let him go. So over those
Starting point is 00:28:33 11 days, he becomes acquainted with Willis Cardo, who I think, I don't know if it was him that started the Institute for Historical Review or someone else, but Cardo becomes very influential within the later American far right. And Yaqui and him have a very close acquaintanceship. And Yaki kills himself with the cyanide capsule he kept in his shoe 11 days after incarceration in order to protect his political contacts, which he put in his suicide note. And, you know, Willis Cardo gets his hands on a copy of Imperium and publishes it, publishes a second edition of it, which is the edition most people are familiar with. And if Yaki was not caught and was not forced to or did not choose to take the more noble route than being kind of paraded and possibly lobotomized because they did that back in those days, it's very likely that he would have lived on as long as an individual like H. Keith Thompson did possibly even into the early 2000s. But that's, I know that was, that was a bit long, but that's kind of the, that's kind of a detailed summary of Yaki's lives and going on. Sure.
Starting point is 00:29:59 And I don't know if we have the time to do it, but at least we could get started. And if we don't have the time, if you'd come back, that would be great. Let's start getting into a little bit of his political thought, because as you've already talked about, I mean, people read this. you know, Moseley's people read this and they were like, this is, this is insane. This nothing, there's nothing like this anywhere else. And I think that really the only thing that they could have compared it to at the time would have been Spangler. But it was, he had taken a step beyond that. Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:34 No, that's, that's, that's exactly how to, how to describe it. Um, Imperium is, is, if I had to recommend one book that any young or not so young individual, uh, who's getting into the far right, who's getting into, you know, this side of things, whatever you would call it, whatever it's, um, whatever it's, the safe term is dissident right now. Yeah, dissident, dissident, right, these spheres are a thing, the Kosinosa, whatever, the 5,000 names that we have for it. If I had to recommend a single book and you only had to read one, I would recommend Imperium. And this is because Imperium not only has Spangler, not only has Yaki, but its metaphysics are drawn almost entirely. Not entirely. Yaki has his own precepts, but drawn largely from the Avolian framework.
Starting point is 00:31:35 His theory of politics is exactly Carl Schmitz. His theory of history is Oswald Spanglers. His theory of individual influence is Thomas Carlisles. All right. Yaki brings together so many thinkers, right, that we now kind of hold up. You know, his legal theory is Joseph Demetrius. He brings them all together in the way that I think only an American could. And he creates this.
Starting point is 00:32:05 amazing synthesis between all of these ideas. It is a manifesto. It is a, it is a book for law. It is a book of historical theory. It is a book of political conception. It is a book of racial metaphysics. It is a book on religion. It is a book on any of these things. Yaki touches on. It's a book on economics, right? And this is the one book I would recommend for all of those reasons. he does write it as a um he intends it to be the sort of sequel to decline of the west um spangler spangler was yaki's biggest single influence um when yaki traveled around in his suitcase he would keep a copy of he would keep a copy of decline of the west in the original german both volumes he would keep a copy of Man and Technics in the original German, of the hour of decision, of the essay
Starting point is 00:33:07 Prussianism and socialism, and I believe one or two other texts Spangler wrote, but these were the only texts that Yaki kept on his person at all times, more or less. I think there's a very distinct reason for that. In no uncertain terms, Yaki calls Spangler the philosopher of the 20th century. The 20th century is the century of Spangler to Yaki. And Yaki really, he, you know, even in his own terms, he really only claims to be kind of following along in that tradition and going further. But what he does is he focuses on things, you know, that Spangler missed, including race, including, including politics, including the years from 19, 33 until 1945, which are extremely important and needed to be understood, needed to be put into
Starting point is 00:34:09 a Spanglarian framework. And matter of fact, even even in the first, in the first paragraph of the forward of Imperium, Yaki, Yaki pretty much outlines exactly what this book is. And he says, this book is different from other books. First of all, it is only in form a book at all. In reality, it is a part of the life of action. It is a turning point in a European history. Notice that word he uses there, European history, a late turning point, but a real one. There is nothing original in the content of this book. The book itself only is original. The craze for originality is a manifestation of decadence and the decadence of Europe is the ancestor is the ascendancy rather of the barbarian right what yaki does particularly in this fore but throughout the book
Starting point is 00:35:03 is he tries to bring an end to what he sees as the um uh petty nationalism as the small space thinking as the minor politics as the self-defeating um you know as the self-defeating degradation, the self-defeating decline that European civilization has undergone over the past couple of hundred years. And the way he tries to set forth the framing is that he tries to set forth the entirety of Europe. And this doesn't just mean the continent of Europe itself. It also includes the United States and South Africa, at least more South Africa, and Canada. And everywhere, where, really, where whites settled in such numbers as to become the majority, at least to create their own cultures there. These are all extensions of Europe, right? And how Yaki is
Starting point is 00:36:00 trying to frame it in the way, as I try to repeat, only an American can do, he tries to make all of these disparate components aware of each other. He tries to make the Frenchman understand that he comes from the same well that the German comes from, that the Australian comes from, that the Northman, or Northman, Norwegian, sorry, that the Norwegian comes from, that the Scott comes from, that the American comes from, not just the American, but that the New England Yankee and the southern, the southern planter, all of these people come from the same source, come from the same well. And Spangler talks about this. He calls this Faustian civilization and decline of the West. But Yaqui kind of takes it a step further.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Yaki isn't speaking purely in the abstract. He's not speaking purely in theory. He's outlining the sort of what we would now call pan-Europeanism. I kind of just call it pan-Westernism because I don't, it's not geographically limited to the continent of Europe. It is, it is all one continuum with different component parts of that. continuum, but it is one continuum. And that is the most important thing. And you can get this off an initial reading, even of just the forward of Imperium. That is the most important thing Yaki is driving towards. Well, I wanted to get into a little bit of it because there's the ideas that are in here or not ideas that you're not going to get them in school. It depends. I guess it depends,
Starting point is 00:37:36 depends what school you're going to go to. But one thing that jumped right out at me, in the first section, which is called the 20th century historical outlook, is the two aspects of history. And in the first paragraph, he says, history is the record of fulfilled destinies of cultures, nations, religions, philosophies, sciences, mathematics, art forms, great men. Only the feeling of empathy can understand these once living souls from the bare records left. Causality is helpless here. That's absolutely correct. What Yaki is kind of trying to say in this passage is that all of these things he outlines what Spangler calls his high culture, right? This isn't any one thing. This is, you know, this is individuals, great men. This is religions. This is philosophies. This is forms of mathematics. This is ways of organizing militaries. This is all of these things. Artwork, poetry, styles of both. Planning cities. right, uh, settling people. All of this, all of this comes from the sort of, um,
Starting point is 00:38:48 these sort of interior, internal feeling of the individual men that were animated to manifest the spirit in the world. Um, and in order to understand these, um, these destinies, these fulfilled destinies, I'm going to get into what that means, but in order to understand these fulfilled destinies with empathy, that means you need to understand these fulfilled destinies with empathy. that means you need to understand that it was a soul that created these things using men, using humans as its tools to create these things. Right. Yaki further defines this Banglarian high culture in it is a collective soul. It is a collective animating force held by a common group of people. It's almost a Jungian collective unconscious. And Carl Jung was a massive influence on Yaki.
Starting point is 00:39:41 There are several Jungian theories within Imperium. And, um, but this collective unconscious is only limited to those, which Yaqui later introduces another term in the, in the work, people of race. This is limited to people of race. Race is not something you are. It's something you are. It is, it is something that, that separates the higher kind of, of, of human type versus human as animal, man is animal.
Starting point is 00:40:08 It's, it's, it's a higher form of consciousness, right? Right. And in order to understand, like, for example, if you take the Egyptians, right, in order to understand the ancient Egyptians, you need to understand that these were a people with an animating force, with things that move them, with primary symbols, with evocative ways of being that we as, as Faustians, as Westerners, could not even begin to comprehend because we were not grown, nor did we have our soul formed and brought. down to earth in that geographical region around the Nile. We did not live to see the events, the highs, the lows, the formational consciousness of the Egyptian people. Same thing for every high culture between the beginning of time and where we are now. Empathy is understanding that, well, these people did have this animating spirit and we can only even begin to grasp at it from these bare bones concepts, from these records that
Starting point is 00:41:14 they leave. The word fulfilled destinies, I said I was going to get into that. A destiny in the Spanglarian sense that a Yaqui is using is a lifespan, right? So say you have a seed, say you have an apple seed, right? And you plant that in the ground. And left to its own devices, left to its own devices with everything going right and it getting plenty of sunlight, water, um, all of this other stuff, that seed will grow into a massive apple tree and then it will rot away and die.
Starting point is 00:41:48 This is, if, if left to its own devices, if left with, with everything that is sufficient for it, it will become that apple tree. This is, fulfilled destiny is the fulfilled life cycle of a culture.
Starting point is 00:42:02 All right. Um, This is the same for, like, take an individual human being, right? A human being, when they're born, they have an infancy, they have a childhood, they have an adolescence, they have an adulthood, and then they have a decline into old age and death. Barring any sort of outside force interrupting that or ending that prematurely, that is the destiny of a human being. A high culture, a civilization, a way of being, even a religion within that civilization, even within that historical epic, even within the life of a great man. All of those have the same cycle. This is not to say, especially in the terms of religion, this is not to say that a religion is true or false. Yaki even says this. Yaki says religions are above the words true or false. That's not a value you can place upon faith. Faith is the internal, I'm going to get a lot of hate for saying this, but from how I interpret how Yaki is trying to say it, faith is the internal means in which a high culture
Starting point is 00:43:04 interprets the metaphysical. Faith is the internal means in which a high culture uses to express that particular aspect of its soul. It's relation with the grander, with the grander creation. You know, as I say, God in creation. This is how God manifests as will. And so all of these things have a, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, basically is the right way to say it. So, you know, an art form. An art form is brought into being by, you know, a genius. It's always a genius who does this. The genius in religion is called prophets. And genius just simply means originality. It's brought into being and there's a certain finite level of possibilities. There's endless potential. But by manifesting that potential
Starting point is 00:43:54 that that particular art form, that that that particular faith, that that particular means of history has. By bringing it into the, uh, bringing it in into the material world, you actually have to spend that potential, almost as if it's like a currency. And there is a, there is a set limit of possibilities of art forms. Take classical music, for example. It's kind of brought into being by Bach. Bach kind of starts to create the, the initial concepts. There were people before him, obviously. Um, but Bach is the first like primary genius, right? That kind of, kind of creates what we now call classical music, right? Then you have, you know, Vivaldi and other such people, but then Mozart comes. Mozart comes and just over the course of his short 30-year life
Starting point is 00:44:41 entirely creates the concept of classical music, just out of almost, not out of nothing, he has component parts, but just completely off of his, the force of his own genius, summons into being this, this art form, this way of being that becomes the highest art form achieved by the West, which is its classical music. After Mozart, right, like, Mozart essentially just creates 90% of what we call classical music today. After him, you have Beethoven who comes in and fills out about, you know, 5%, and then you have other individuals, like maybe a single symphony that they wrote is entered
Starting point is 00:45:18 into the canon. And then you have the death of classical music with Wagner, where Wagner comes along and kind of reaches the end, the five. final possibility that you can portray classical music in, which is in the beginning of the romantic era, in the beginning of romantic music. And then after that, it just, it's, it's not classical music anymore. It's a fulfilled art form that people, that people are, they're creating stuff under its name, but the only way that they're creating is by actively refuting what the art form used to be. Forgive me if that's a bit, if that's a bit convoluted, but that's the best way I can
Starting point is 00:45:56 describe what I'm a Spengler and Yaki are talking about by fulfilled destinies. It's that same principle applies to everything, to economics, to mathematics, to philosophy, to religion, to all of it. Yeah, I think anyone who sits down to read this who has, believes in God, believes in, you know, isn't a materialist. Part one is probably what hooks you in. I could see a lot of people who aren't taken aback, because he has a section here on Darwinism, and he says, he calls Darwinism a grotesquery. He says the whole grotesquery of Darwinism and of the materialism of the entire 19th century generally is a product of one fundamental idea, an idea which happens also to be non-factual to this century, even though it was a prime fact a century ago. That one idea
Starting point is 00:46:49 was that life is formed from the outer. And then he says, he asks a question, what is life? And he says, life is the actualizing of the possible. The possible turns into the actual in the midst of outer facts, which affects only the precise way in which the possible becomes actual, but cannot touch the inner force, which is expressing itself through, and if necessary, in opposition to the outer facts. this is exactly correct yes and and that's kind of that's the passage that defines this whole
Starting point is 00:47:27 thing i was kind of grasping at and this kind of just just shows the genius of yaki and how in a single passage he can just summarize all of these ideas that i'm i'm struggling to articulate yes it is it is the um life is the the the fulfillment of the possible as he says it is the manifesting of the inner spirit in the exterior world. It is not vice versa. It is not outside factors. Nature is, nature as we describe it, it is not a continual act of forces acting on everything within nature. Nature is actually a very delicate balancing act in which several niches and several combinations of niches need to be filled, including that of a higher conscious being, including that of a higher conceptual force, which can act and change nature and can
Starting point is 00:48:14 transform it and can play around with those niches and that comes from a level beyond like above above this sort of material plane however you define as above right acting down onto it manifesting itself onto it this is almost kind of the proving ground for um for platonic concepts is is what um is what i believe yaki is trying to say here um and yes that's that's exactly it that's exactly you know that's exactly what what was being outlined you know it's every art form every civilization, every high culture is one of these concepts, is one of these possibilities trying to bring itself into being in this world, in this plane. I wanted to jump forward to the part on Marxism, because I've, something that I've really
Starting point is 00:49:05 been trying to touch on for a while is what exactly is ideology and what is its purpose? What's the practical use of ideology? And in the section on Marxism, he says, the 19th century was the age of individualism. The 20th and 21st are the ages of socialism. No one has understood if he thinks this is an ideological conflict. He says, ideology itself means the rationalizing of the world of action. yes yes and um he talks about this in my um in my favorite part of imperial my favorite chapter which is the the articulation of a culture um ideology is um is inherently tied to the nature of
Starting point is 00:50:00 the zeitgeist um zeitgeist being spirit of the times that particular passage he was talking about comes from spengler particularly in the essay prussianism and socialism in that essay Spengler outlines that socialism as people are using it is kind of a bastardization, right? It is not Marxism. Marx, you know, he says Marx was the godfather of socialism, but it's, it's, you know, Marx was no more had anything to do with bringing socialism into being than anyone else. Like, it was just a manifestation of the times. All that socialism is is kind of a, is a way of reconciling this.
Starting point is 00:50:40 this post-industrial world, this world of massive material mobilization, socialism is the means of reconciling that world to a sort of pre-industrial, paternalistic, almost feudal way of living, in which, you know, you have the man at the top who looks after the needs and the, um, and the best interests of those beneath him. This sort of, this is the sort of recreation of like the feudal barony, the feudal lordship. and you know I'm this is not a this is not a what's the right word um this is not a condemnation nor is it a uh endorsement endorsement yes of it this is simply just how it is right you you have a niche that needs to be filled some people feel like the paternalistic way of organizing the
Starting point is 00:51:31 world is the correct way some people do not believe such and um socialism as it has been formed is the paternalistic way of organizing the world within the context of the the zeitgeist of the 20th and the 21st century. And Marx had nothing to do with that. Marks was just some dude who wrote a book that people animated by an inner spirit held up as like, this is everything we believe in in half the time. They didn't even read the book. They just kind of parroted the points and they acted according to how their internal instinct made them act.
Starting point is 00:52:06 And that's all, you know, to sort of answer your initial question of ideology, That's all ideology is, is the means of acting with a certain view within the zeitgeist. It's whatever bells and whistles, whatever aesthetics, whatever decorations you put onto that rationalization, right? Like the difference between like, oh, I'm a, you know, traditionalist, integralist Catholic, or I'm a, you know, national socialist with Prussian socialist tendencies or something like that. It doesn't matter. that's all that's all just a a flavoring a putting through your own lens the um the the the the nature of acting within the current zeitgeist i believe that the current zeitgeist is actually shifting and shifting very very quickly as as yaki predicted it would um as as as you know
Starting point is 00:52:58 as recently it started the shift started in 2016 trump is a trump is a lot more important of an individual than people make give him credit for and this is despite him. This is not because of him. But the era of Trump, the epic of Trump is just a transition from the zeitgeist of the Nuremberg World Order into what Yaqui calls the resurgence of authority. And that, I believe, will be the ideology of the next stage, is what Spengler calls Caesarism, the coming of these big strong men and this reorganization of politics along the lines of the politics of blood as opposed to the politics of money. The paragraph that has the line ideology itself means the rationalizing of the world of action ends
Starting point is 00:53:49 where he's drawing a distinction between an ideal and an idea. And what he says here is the time has passed away in which men would die for an abstract program of quote unquote improving the world. Men will always be willing to die, however, in order to be themselves. This is a distinction between an ideal and an idea. This is exactly what I'm trying to get at here as well, is that men will die in order to manifest what the zeitgeist demands. People always say we're not blank states,
Starting point is 00:54:30 we're products of our circumstances. Well, you know, your circumstances is your biology, as your soul is your means of manifesting, right? In order to be yourself, you need to live out the destiny put forth to you by the time, by the era, by the place, by the blood that you have, all of these combined, and by the ideas that you feel compelled to act with, right? And this is explicitly limited to that higher type of man, that man of race that I outlined. this is this is this is only something that um that higher men have to worry about lower men just don't think lower men just kind of are pushed like um uh like like like matter like like like animals like anything else that's not to that's not to that's not to like look down upon them that's just the role that they fulfill but higher men uh which yaki says is no more than
Starting point is 00:55:26 i think 300,000 um of the entire world population um very very very very, very rarely changing. It might have even been half of that. I think it was 150,000. This is what they will die for, is to be, is to be themselves, is to fulfill the zeitgeist, is to act how they are supposed to act given the set of specific circumstances they find themselves in. And I think the reason to die, I think the reason to to go out and fight and risk and live and become yourself will become more and more and more apparent as the years get on and as you see around yourself and the world as things start to get worse and you know the hard times come on again i want to go on to the section on Freud because this is
Starting point is 00:56:23 uh this important stuff i'm just going to there's a section here i want to read but there's one there's a one off sentence here that is great he says uh Freudian is a as the black mass of Western science. It's just a quick little aside. But there's one thing he says here. He goes, Darwinism was the popular outlook that the meaning of the life of the world was that everything else was trying to become man animal
Starting point is 00:56:50 and man was trying to become Darwinian. Marxism means the meaning of all human life is that the lowest must become the highest. Freudianism, the meaning of human life is sexuality, actual, optative, conative, and otherwise. All three are nihilistic. Culture man is the spiritual enemy. He must be eliminated by animalizing him, biologizing him, and making him economic, sexualizing him, and diabolizing him.
Starting point is 00:57:27 that was like when I was reading it that stopped me in my tracks as much as the first time I ever read Engels talking about revolution and Engels described what a revolution looked like better than anyone I've ever read but this just stopped me in my tracks I took a picture of it and put it like anywhere I could these are all these things that Yaqui outlines Freudianism Marxism these are all part of what is the acid that eats away at a high culture, the sort of refutation of it. In many ways, the challenge that gives it meaning, the challenge that it must overcome. Because specifically, he's speaking in the context of Western civilization. Western civilization, Faustian man, is premised entirely upon the fact that all things can be known and understood and all things must be known and understood.
Starting point is 00:58:27 what Marxism, what Freudianism and, forgive me, could you, could you mention the third, the third form again, slipped my mind? Yeah, Marxism, Freudianism, Darwinism. Darwinism, yes. What all three of these things are meant to do is to kind of almost change the perception within the Western man's own framework that nothing can really be understood because he is, the issue. What Freudianism does is Freudianism seeks to make everything, you know, well, everything is just a product of the individual's viewing of the situation or everything is a product of the individual's repressed sexual desires, right? It's this armchair psychologizing. It's this reduction. It's this dismissiveness, right? That's another key word, reduction, right?
Starting point is 00:59:17 Marxism, what it does is it reduces the man to economic unit. It makes him, it makes him a number on a spreadsheet, not a, not a, and this is culture man, not a, an actor who has an internal soul, who has an internal spirit that he must be fulfilling, right? Darwinism. Darwinism is the refutation of the internal soul and the internal spirit outright. It is the, it is the making of, you know, all processes, all things that humans believe, all things that culture man understands about the world. That was all made by XT. forces. They are not his. They were forcibly developed by his internal biology in order to adapt to survival situations. Well, that kind of takes all the meaning out of life, doesn't it?
Starting point is 01:00:06 Like, that kind of reduces, like, if that's the system of ethics you want to go with, well, then you can't justify anything beyond living like a, a Kretnus coward scraping for all the food he can get. And this is what it's all meant to do, is it's a, you know, this is actually actively pushed by another term Yaqui uses called a culture distorting. and this is this is what it's meant to do it's meant to kind of knock the high culture off of its tracks it is it is meant to it is meant to retard to prevent this this this high culture from manifesting its destiny from from from actualizing itself in the same way that diseases whether they be cancer whether they be cholera or other sorts is meant to is meant to slow life
Starting point is 01:00:55 is meant to prevent it from undergoing its proper process of destiny, of living, of actualizing. Well, we're a little over an hour now, but there's one more little thing from, there's one more like paragraph. It's a small paragraph from this section on Freud and tries to sum up psychology here. And he says, the greatest repository of psychology of all is history. it contains no models for us since life is never recurring once happening but it shows by example how we can fulfill our potentialities by being true to ourselves and by never compromising with that which is utterly alien and God if we're not dealing with that right now where it seems like everything that is shoved in our face is against nature and is a hundred years ago, people would have been rebelling in ways that aren't happening right now. Absolutely. This is completely correct. It's it's hard to put into words because it's just, it's, it's so widespread. It's so, um, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I don't even know how to,
Starting point is 01:02:19 how to even begin to start, I'm outlining. the nature of the forces stacked against us of that which is meant to to without using all of this sort of yakiite terminology without trying to to to use a bunch of these these strange technical words that many of the viewers may be unfamiliar with what it what it really is is is preventing us from being who we are preventing us from living how we know we are supposed to live. And that is not compromising that which makes us ourselves. Right. It doesn't, this is beyond ideology. This is beyond, you know, whatever particular flavor of right wing politics or, or whatever politics you have. You know, honestly, I've said this many times,
Starting point is 01:03:14 but like now if you call yourself right wing, that's just a, that's just a means of calling yourself sane. that's that's what it's come to me is that you're a person who who is who is who is in touch with who they are and what is conducive and what living is supposed to be that is that is that is the the best way to describe what being a man self-actualized is yeah i couldn't say it any better all right so we did a you went over the man his history and we just did like a a real quick overview of part one, which is the 20th century historical outlook.
Starting point is 01:03:55 If you'd like, we can come back and we can keep doing overviews of the next four sections. Oh, of course. I'm happy to come on whenever you'll have me. Cool. All right. Well, then plug again. I'll plug again and tell everybody about substack and whatever else.
Starting point is 01:04:11 Yes, you can find my work on Paul Fahrenheit. That's H-E-I-D-T. Paulfarenheit.substack.com You can find me on Twitter at Cavking Paul. You can also find my work on some of my earlier work where I actually go into depth on them. I have one article called the Yakiite conception of race
Starting point is 01:04:34 in which I go into depth as to what Yaki's view on race, both biological and metaphysical is. And that's generally the places you can find me. You can find me as a serial guest on my mentor Thomas's Mind Phaser podcast. I'm there, I think, pretty much every episode. You can find me on streams done by, I was actually, I just did a four-hour stream with my good friend, Clausington, a week ago. And you can find me every year.
Starting point is 01:05:05 Also, I have a paid podcast on my substack called New World Signals. It's $5 a month in which I go into deep aspects of Americana with my various guests. So that's generally all the places you can find me. I appreciate it. All right. Until the next time. Thank you. I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cagnonez show.
Starting point is 01:05:27 I am here again with Paul Fahrenheit. How are you doing, Paul? I'm doing excellent, Pete. Thanks for having me back. Not a problem. Not a problem. I think people wanted this to continue. And you were doing some traveling.
Starting point is 01:05:41 That's awesome. So was I. And basically my idea for this was, well, the last time you went over who the man Francis Parkiaki was. And then I started picking out parts from little sections from part one to comment on. But there is a section in, I believe this is part two, called political organisms and war. And this is a particularly important. part to me, because when you start to understand that the arguments against war, the moral
Starting point is 01:06:20 arguments, the morality arguments against war are basically very new, but they are used as a weapon by those in charge and by certain groups, then you realize, okay, well, what exactly was the purpose of war historically and how did we get to this to where war is about morality and right and wrong and evil and all the words that we're hearing you can just look at the things that are being thrown at somebody like Putin right now because you know Putin just invaded Ukraine because he's a madman well yes and where yaki is coming from and um where this general line of thinking comes from in terms of classifying the moral arguments against war as a weapon of war themselves, right? You can kind of trace this back to a sort of Spengler quote.
Starting point is 01:07:17 And the Spengler quote, I believe, is peace is a desire, war is a fact, and history has never paid attention to human needs or desires. And anyone who wants to like seriously, like even glance at history, must sort of come into it with the mindset that war is the general state of it for most of it. Like peace, peace is kind of a breather from contiguous war, right? But not war in the sense that, you know, most people understand it, not war in the sense of like the anomaly of the 20th century or even the anomaly of the 18th and 19th centuries. this sort of industrialized
Starting point is 01:08:04 meat grinder type conflicts that are really a new innovation really going back to finding their origins and I think
Starting point is 01:08:16 the 30 years war is where they can find their origins in in this sort of mass mobilization in like impressment officers coming to villages
Starting point is 01:08:27 and rounding up all of the military aged men and impressing them into regiments and basically throwing them to get slaughtered by cannonballs. This is all, you know, relatively new. And it's not what war has been for the majority of human history and generally in the basic state of human existence. War is generally the conflict between small sort of bands. I can even give you a number, usually around 30 in number going all the way back to the uh for those of you into indo-aryan studies the aryan corios um that would um that would expand their tribes from around the caucuses uh eastward
Starting point is 01:09:11 into uh the steps in india and westward into into europe right this is this is generally how war is fought is between you know as as bronze age pervert would call menerbuns uh small groups of tight-knit young men, usually around ages 18 to 25, going out and essentially just existing like a band of mercenaries, wood, or a band of raiders, or a bandit's and all that. And it's even reasserting itself in the 21st century. It started reasserting itself in the latter half of the 20th century with the Special Forces groups, particularly the Green Berets and the Navy Seals concept, where you have these sort of small, tight-knit bands, especially with the Green Berets just kind of sent into theaters to do things, to make alliances, to
Starting point is 01:10:02 bribe, to do anything essentially to achieve political goals. And so that is what the fundamental basis of non-industrial warfare is. And I know this is kind of a little bit of a departure to what we're going to talk about in the next couple of minutes, but that's just a foundation I wanted to give to the audience, so everyone kind of has a picture in their mind of the two kinds of warfare we were talking about. And one of the reasons I wanted to bring it up and specifically do this one is because a lot of the audience is or has come out of libertarianism, and one of the hallmarks of libertarianism is being anti-war.
Starting point is 01:10:46 And a lot of the arguments against war are made from a moral standard. standpoint. But if you understand how certain groups use moral judgments to do some of the worse things in history, things that were done in Germany, post-World War II, and I mean, just the Treaty of Versailles. The whole Treaty of Versailles is just a punishment because the fourth country into the war was so bad. This is something that people have to understand that when you're using moral arguments in politics and you're using them specifically for war, you're basically playing into who you would consider to be the enemy's hands. That's completely correct.
Starting point is 01:11:39 And this sort of weaponized moralism is actually a product of the zeitgeist of the late 19th, early 20th century into the mid-20th century. this zeitgeist of small space petty nationalism, which Yaqui talks about in other sections, this sort of a raison d'eement, not natural to the European spirit, I think. I think it was an outside force imposed upon it by culture distortion. Because if you look in earlier wars, like you look at the Hundred Years' War,
Starting point is 01:12:16 and the Frenchmen and the English nobles, whenever one would capture the other, They were treated very well with chivalry. They were welcomed around campfires, and it was basically a understanding that these are not existential enemies. I think the Greeks also had a way of differentiating. There are two Greek words that escape my mind, but one referred to a sort of to a, just a rival, like a fellow city state. You know, we're fighting them and we're killing them, but they're fellow Greeks. So we're not, like, pulling out all the cards.
Starting point is 01:12:52 And then there was another term to refer to existential enemies, like, like the Persian Empire. Like, you know, these people are not, you know, are not entitled to the rights we would give to fellow Greeks and need to be eradicated else they will do the same to us, right? And so in the late 19th and early 20th century, right, this sort of this differentiation between the two kinds of enemies between basic sort of rivals like, oh, well, it's not like if France takes over England, they're going to eradicate all of the Englishmen or vice versa, right? That's just kind of understood. That is subverted and changed to, oh, the French need to eradicate all of the Englishmen or all of the Germans or whatever in order to secure our own existence or whatever like that. And that's a very non-Western, a very culture distortion way of thinking. Yep. And maybe one of these episodes will get into culture distortion because that's an amazing part of the book that you're not going to find that in a lot of places. No, not at all. All right. So for people who want to read along, go to your table of contents and look in part two. And this section is called political organisms and war. And I'm going to start reading. And much like my readings in the past that people have liked, Paul can just interrupt at any time he wants to comment and, you know, that I'll do the same. It'll just stop.
Starting point is 01:14:28 So I'm going to start reading. Political organisms and war. A political unit has a juice belly. I'm terrible at pronouncing Latin, and he uses a lot of Latin. So everybody who's yelling at me right now, please, please, back off. A political unit has a juice belly, the organic right to me. make war on the enemy it has determined. Not moral right here. This organic right is a thing independent of morality, even though also the strictest scholastic philosophers gave to political
Starting point is 01:15:03 units to purely moral right to wage war. But it is in a purely political way that the word is used here. The right to make war is a part of the habitus of the organism. The existence of a political unit, the determination of an enemy, the making of war, the maintenance of the inner peace, the declaration of the inner enemy, the power of life and death over the life of all subjects. These are merely different facets of politico-organic existence. They cannot be separated. They are an indivisible whole. Insofar as they can be defined at all, they can also be so in terms of each other. In the exercise of its power to make war, a state disposes of the lives of its own subject and of those of the enemy. The bloodshed is not a life requirement of a state,
Starting point is 01:15:57 but occurs merely as a part of the process of acquiring power. The state directly seeking power is not the one that brings about bloodshed and war. No politician whatever would make war against another unit if he thought it would submit to incorporation without a fight. Thus, war is always the result of resistance and not of political dynamism. War is not normative. It is existential only. In the entire panorama of the history of the high cultures, I doubt that there has been a case where the ruling stratum of political unit ever decided that, first of all, it wanted war
Starting point is 01:16:40 and then cast about for somebody upon whom to make war, it would not be political. What's important about those first two paragraphs here is Yaki is drawing upon two seminal thinkers of the Western political tradition. In the first instance, in the first paragraph, Yaki essentially describes the concept of sovereignty as laid down by Carl Schmidt. Sovereignty is agency, right? Agency unrestrained. A political unit is a sovereign unit, a unit capable of having the power of life and death over everyone within itself. That is a political unit, right? That does not mean it one day wakes up and decides to kill everyone in itself, because as he points out in the second paragraph, that would
Starting point is 01:17:26 not be political. It would be against the entire purpose of being for that political organism, right? Which is more important than any sort of moral argument that could be made, like how terrible it would be to kill all those people will know. Like, if that political unit kills all the people under it, exercises that power, then it essentially ceases to exist. It commits suicide, right? And that's, that's, you know, inherently antithetical to the, to the whole point of that political existence.
Starting point is 01:17:59 In the second paragraph, Yaki points out another great thinker of Western tradition, which is Carl von Klausvitz, the foundation of all modern military theory. Right? And particularly the quote, the aphorism of Klauswitz, war is simply politics by other means. Politics, as defined by the previously mentioned, Carl Schmidt, is simply the struggle between the friend and the enemy. That is the means why Yama Yaki defines politics, is friend versus enemy. Politics cannot be defined in any other way. It is simply what your friends want. What your enemies want, how those two things conflict is politics, right? And so politics between friend and enemy is almost, it does not have to be war.
Starting point is 01:18:51 As a matter of fact, war in the sense of a sort of existential war or even a more kinetic war, right, is generally the last option, right? because it takes, war is one of the most resource, I think it is the most resource-consuming phenomenon that can be done by societies. You know, you need men, you need equipment to equip those men, you need rations to feed those men, you need mental power to direct those men, to train them, to discipline them,
Starting point is 01:19:23 to fight on the battlefield. You need, you know, you need civilians supporting this behind them. You need all of these things, all of these things going into war right make the objective of a war make the the mission what you are hoping to achieve let's say for example you are trying to take a border province like one political unit say the kingdom of France is trying to take a border province from the kingdom of the Netherlands right well if it costs France more to equip the armies to train the armies to send them up to take that
Starting point is 01:19:59 province and to defeat the resistance put up to them by the Netherlands then that war is not useful in the first place like that what them gaining that province uh whether it be for resource reasons for national prestige reasons for anything like that would would be counterintuitive it wouldn't be beneficial to them right and this is something that um that you can sort of recognize when you achieve political wisdom which is a another concept that yaki speaks about uh and other parts of the of imperium right so this is this is a this is a This is essentially what Yaqui is defining. Sovereign political units with agency working out their conflicting interests through various means of which war is always the last, but never the impossible option.
Starting point is 01:20:50 But it's never wanted for the reasons I have outlined. I will continue. Nor is the mere power over life and death generally, juvite agnesis, the hallmark of a political organism. Many states in history recognize this power to be in family units. Old Rome gave it to the Paterfamilius. Some states have allowed the master power over the life of the slave. Most states have permitted the victim of an imputation of dishonor to contest for the life of his vilifier. Many states have recognized the right of blood revenge among clans, although this reaches the very frontier in this matter and is seldom found,
Starting point is 01:21:33 and then only in peace. It is thus quite conclusive that politics, as such, seeks no monopoly of taking life. Politics at its highest potential war takes life only because resistance requires it. Politics is activity in relation to power. I actually used that quote on the last episode. It was politics is activity in relation to power. and there is only one way, and there is only one way organic instinct behaves towards power. It seeks more.
Starting point is 01:22:09 Metaphysically, this is the relation between the soul of a man and the soul of the high culture on the one hand and the habitus of the beast of prey on the other hand. Although it permits subjects in certain cases, which it determines in accordance with the law of sovereignty, to take life, the state never permits subjects to make war. If a group of subjects assume this power, a new state has arisen. If the right of blood revenge turns into clan warfare, the state must intervene for its existence is involved. That is why, in all states engaged in serious politics, the right of blood revenge is abrogated. The right to make war in the process to dispose of life is purely political.
Starting point is 01:22:57 No church could possibly ask its members to die for the church. This is quite different from insisting that martyrdom is preferable to apostasy, unless it is becoming a political unit. In critical times, many churches, such as Abu Berk's, Abu Berk, such as Abu Becker's Islam. How do you pronounce it? It's Becker, right? I think so. I think we call him Abu Bakr now, but it was, you know, there's, there's, there's there's been spellings different. I'm not an Islam expert, though. Okay. In critical times,
Starting point is 01:23:32 many churches such as Abu Bakr's Islam have become states, but then they are no longer churches and they are ruled by the political way of thinking and its basic inner organic demand for more power and no longer by the religious imperative of salvation and conversion. That's actually something that's something that's very important, a very important distinction to make, right? A church A church is a way of being. It is not something that calls itself a church, right? A church is primarily dedicated, as I think I talked about last time, a church is primarily dedicated to the high culture's means of realizing the metaphysics, right?
Starting point is 01:24:15 A church is primarily concerned with spiritual matters, right? It has hierarchy, it has structure, right? But it is primarily focused around that. that hierarchy and structure of that church, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals, all of that other, you know, or equivalent, right, turn to political matters. That is, matters among interests of friends and enemies, right? Once a church turns into that, it is no longer a church, even though it may call itself a church, it may still do the rituals, it may still have its people in the hierarchy calling them priests. It is a political unit at that point, right? This is actually a concept that Dostoyevsky talks about in the brothers Karamazov, in which I think there's a conversation between all the characters early on in the book. And I think it's Ivan, I think, who makes the point in the conversation that if the church rules the world, if you make the world ruled over by the church, then it is no longer the church.
Starting point is 01:25:23 It is the state, right? And that is the key concept behind this point that Yaki is making. And Yaki very much read and loved Dostoyevsky, and he references him several times in this book. This is why people on this side of things, or people who disparage the separation of church and state, church and state are two metaphysically separate concepts. You cannot have one and the other simultaneously, right? You can only have one, be one or the other, right? And this will find a way to manifest itself, and this is a point that Yaqui makes. Earlier in, like, I think two paragraphs ago, when he talks about the disputes between
Starting point is 01:26:11 I'm a blood and clans, just a small little note on that, war is the hallmark of sovereignty. War is the sort of even down to the the symbol of sovereignty in parliament in the United Kingdom is a mace that sits in the center of the House of Commons right and that mace is a symbol of sovereignty of the power of the crown
Starting point is 01:26:34 the reason that it is that mace it is a weapon is because war to quote Klaus Fitz again is simply a duel it is a duel between at its simplest concept it is a duel between two opposing parties between a friend and an enemy.
Starting point is 01:26:50 And a duel is meant for one party to impose his will on the other party by physical force. And this doesn't mean that every time someone picks up a rock or swings a fist at someone else that that is a war, but that is metaphysically the basis it can get. And so if you have, let's say, two clans, if you have two families that, you know, get into a blood feud for one reason or another, right? And it gets to the point where they're openly fighting each other at the expense of the state. The state must intervene to prevent that. Otherwise, those two families have become two states in and of themselves, right? So this is all sort of what I'm, this is all sort of leading to the point that I'm, that, that sovereignty is all vested within warfare and the right to warfare and the right to combat and conflict, right?
Starting point is 01:27:43 I'm going to go on. It would be cruel and insane to ask men to die in order that the remainder would have an unimpaired or higher standard of economic life. When war is motivated by an economic idea, the economics vanishes into the war political situation, i.e., the test of success is the political one. The method of waging it is not reviewed as to its cost. The means used always are. military political. The leadership is always political and would be so even if exclusively economists were used as the war leaders. Their thinking would indeed be curious, but it would not be economic. Politics and economics are two different directions of human thinking and are hostile to one another. For this reason, no true politician and no true warrior would ever with
Starting point is 01:28:38 full consciousness, carry on or fight a war for an exclusively economic motive, no matter what grand opportunities it offered for personal distinction. Economically motivated wars like the American War of Secession, 1861, 1865, the English Opium War, the Boer War, were of necessity presented to the participants under an untruthful propaganda. This is, this is, uh, forgive me. This is just a reinforcement of my earlier point. He brings up economics too, right?
Starting point is 01:29:14 Politics is a metaphysically separate concept from everything, from economics, from theology, from art, from all this other stuff, right? As Yaki said in this paragraph, right, even if you had like all of the generals or all of the people, even if you abolish the title general and you put economists in charge of all of that army, those economists would be fulfilling the metaphysical role of political. leadership, right? Even if they, they weren't thinking necessarily politically, they are no longer economists, right? That is, that's sort of, that's the same logic applying to a church versus a political organism, right? If you have all of the priests in charge of an army, they are no longer priests, right? They are, they are something else. And that's, that's just a, that's just a reinforcement of the earlier point Yaki made. It's very logical. And again, arguments that are to be found in very few places.
Starting point is 01:30:08 economics lacks the strength in itself, i.e. pure economics, to rouse men to the level of action where they will risk their lives. This is because economics presupposes life and merely seeks ways of securing, nourishing, perpetuating the life. It simply does not make sense to buy life with death. When death becomes a possibility, we are no longer in the sphere of economics. If economics wants a certain war, it can only bring it about by political means, and then also, we are no longer in the sphere of economics. I don't want to interrupt you too much, but that's an important, for the libertarians in the audience, it's a very important paragraph to be considered, right? Pete, you know as well as I do that one of the primary foundations of libertarian thought is upon economics, whether it be Austrian or otherwise, right? But economics, in its purely metaphysical sense, is simply, as Yaqui says, the nourishment of life, or as a Bronze Age pervert says, the matters of the stomach. All that economics is concerned with is, even down to your personal
Starting point is 01:31:19 life, you wake up, should I have a cup of coffee today? Where should I eat lunch? Should I eat breakfast? Should I do all this other stuff? How much sleep should I get? What other, you know, all of these considerations. These are all economic considerations, right? This is, economics is merely the distribution of resources in order to propagate life as long as life can be propagated given the resources, right? And this is this is why a large problem that many libertarians run into is that when they base their foundation of their thinking upon economics and they try to raise economics as a metaphysical thing. Number one, they're no longer talking about economics even if every other word is about von Mises or otherwise. They are trying to make
Starting point is 01:32:05 a political and or metaphysical concept based on these economic foundations, which are, or these words that generally refer to economics, but as I made the point earlier, they're no longer talking about economics. And that's why I think they run into a lot of issues with people who aren't really predisposed to only talk about economics, is that economics exists, as Yaqui points out in this paragraph, really only just to propagate life. It's not a It's not a higher principle. It's not a means of self-fulfillment, which men would be for. And that's just something I wanted to point out.
Starting point is 01:32:44 I'd like to add that basing economics, like if you were to try to base a society purely around economics, and you realize that economics is basically for sustenance, it's to survive. then you've not only based, left out anything metaphysical that the society could be based upon, but you're also leaving out cultural because there is nothing metaphysical or cultural about economics unless, I mean, I know that there are some people out there who've tried to do like spirit economics and stuff like that, but it's completely fringe. But, yeah, if you are looking to base your society 100% around economics, then it's going to be competing against metaphysics and culture. And in the realms of metaphysics and culture and politics, it is impossible for economics to win because that's not a realm that it is suited metaphysically to fight in.
Starting point is 01:33:56 Morality has often been put forward as the motivation of war, and many wars have been waged in the name of morality. This, however, does not make sense. This is not according to any Western system of morality, for states are not within the purview of morality, which is valid only for individuals. Furthermore, the materialistic morality of the 19th century denounced war as murder. Therefore, when protagonists of this type of morality, and they continue to exist and to do so, demand a war to stop war. It is an obvious fraud. The most any man can do about stopping murder is to refrain from murders himself, but these morality warriors have not done that. A morality war is impossible not only from the moral side, but from the war political side.
Starting point is 01:34:50 War is not a norm. One cannot fight against it. War is an existential disjunction, not a system or an institution. There is no rational aim program for economic, moral, aesthetic, or any change, no ever so correct norm that would justify one in killing. To adopt war in politics is in fact to abandon the other things. One can retain non-political ideas privately, but if they become public, they vanish into the political. The result is politics dressed in moral clothing. Do you want me to keep going? No, actually, this is something, this is a good thing to comment upon. This is the problem with Imperium. Like we was talking about before this show, it's like every, every sentence is something I could, I could speak for five minutes about. You have to underline. Yeah, exactly. But I'm, but it's very important what I'm, what Yaki talks about in these two paragraphs here, The point he makes that morality has been put forward as the motivation of war.
Starting point is 01:35:57 Further on when he says, where is it, war is not a norm. One cannot fight against it, right? This is like I'm a, this is like fighting a war against, well, I'm actually going to say it and everyone's going to be like, oh, well, these are historical things. This is like fighting a war on poverty or fighting a war on, you know, death, or fighting a war. on getting old or fighting a war on like people who like to talk to people or something like that it's like you can't you can't get rid of this like like this is all just fundamental aspects as to how the world works as to how it exists as to how it is structured fundamentally right you can't eliminate scarcity you can't eliminate conflict and strife you cannot eliminate um um
Starting point is 01:36:50 you know, faith. You can't eliminate all of these other things because they are inbuilt. It's like trying to improve a, I'm not a, forgive me for all of you coders in the audience. I do not know anything about computers. It's like trying to improve a operating system by deleting its core code, right?
Starting point is 01:37:12 You can't do it because number one, you can't do that within its own operating system without breaking everything, right? And number two, it wouldn't benefit anyone to do it, right? So this is why, you know, the Nuremberg World Order is really just an inversion, an inversion of all of reality and why all of these, you know, LBJ's war on poverty, you know, the war on, even the war on drugs, right? Even the war on vice. Like vice is something that fundamentally exists and you can't eliminate it, right? it's it's it's it's all it all sources back to this sort of you know what some call utopian what i call
Starting point is 01:37:54 the luciferian um right that is that is what morality as people say it has been defined today is all based around is around this bringing about of a perfect world make even even the phrase making the world a better place right that sounds really a not on the surface of it, but what that inherently contains within it is the idea that the world is not fine the way it is, not find the way God has created it. And forgive me for bringing religious arguments into this. But, you know, the world as it has been structured with all of these fundamental core concepts behind it cannot be improved because that is how it was created, right? The idea that one can improve it, that one can make it better. can make it run better is inherently luciferian is inherently uh you know this is and this is the problem with the faustian man right this is one of his vices is that he believes he can improve the world and to try to kind of bring it back to this this is this is in this particular context that yaki is speaking about this is what morality has been used as the weapon to do to uh eliminate
Starting point is 01:39:13 all political wisdom, all metaphysical wisdom, which at its very basis is to understand that the world is an immutable, unchanging place until I'm, until God decrees such. I'm going to keep going. Another fact emerges about politics mixed with morality. There are first two possible mixtures, that of the Cromwell-Torcomata type on the one hand, in which also the politician believes that he is actualizing morality by his policies and the Lincoln-Rosevelt type in which the morality is purely a deception. In the first case, in proportion, as the politician thinks morally, his politics is faulty. Thus, Cromwell refused in 1653, a Spanish alliance, which would have been highly advantageous to England because he abhorred the religion
Starting point is 01:40:09 of Spain. His conduct was, of course, nonetheless, politics, for he made with France the same alliance he refused with Spain and received considerably less from it than Spain had offered. In the second case, where it is not taken seriously, as in the case of Roosevelt, it is not morality at all and is repulsive to honor. Thus, morality in politics makes bad politics if taken seriously, and if you use cynically, it dishonors him who uses it. The question may be asked why moral vocabulary is imported into politics in this age of absolute politics. The answer is that it is done quite deliberately and politically. It is elementary that politics does not include with the idea enemy, with the idea enemy, any subsidiary content of malice or hatred.
Starting point is 01:41:02 Hatred is private. It occurs between antipatical persons out of their own private hostility. Even though this terminology is different from that of Hegel, the idea is identical. He spoke of the hatred of the public enemy as being undifferentiated and totally free from personality. This is no longer hatred in the primary meaning of that word. Wars between states, and when the enemy state is overcome, what overcome means is a reflex of the age, and in an age of absolute politics means total incorporation of the other state. there can be no more war.
Starting point is 01:41:42 enmity ceases, and if there ever was any animosity of any kind, it must cease now, since it was directed if it was political, against the enemy state. That enemy state is gone. But if the population, but if the population of a state has been given exclusively propaganda to the effect that the war was not political, but for moral, humanitarian, legal, scientific, and other reasons, this population will regard the end of the war as the beginning of unlimited opportunities of oppressing the population of the former enemy state. Moral propaganda thus stands forth in its nakedness. In the 20th century, it is a means of fighting
Starting point is 01:42:27 a war after the war, a war not this time against a state with the weapons in its hands, but against the survivors of the defeat. Herein is the true significance of a phenomenon that mystified many persons at that time. I refer to the concentration camp propaganda against Europe, which was developed to its full height after the Second World War. This propaganda was solely for the purpose of a war after the war, thus not a true war, since there was no opposing unit, but an attempt to rouse extra-European populations and extra-European armies of occupation to ever-renewed ferocity and personal hatred against a defenseless European population. All right.
Starting point is 01:43:12 So those are three very large paragraphs, and I'm going to try to answer them with as much brevity as I can. In the first paragraph in which Yaqui differentiates between the absolute moralist infused politics and the morality as, I guess, front politics, typified by Cromwell in the former case and Lincoln and Roosevelt and the latter case in the former case
Starting point is 01:43:40 this is the kind of idea of mixing how could you say this like there's a reason you don't talk about religion at work not because it's for the benefit of other people but because it really just has no place there right like maybe
Starting point is 01:43:58 maybe when you're when you're off hours it has a place there but that's because you're all there cooperating towards a common end that is kind of separate from, you know, church, state, politics, all this other stuff, right? What Cromwell does and what I would also put forth the, the prohibitionist movement, the temperance movement, all of these great, these great moralizing efforts brought about by, you know, Anglos first and foremost, though they're not uniquely, they're not uniquely sinful in that case. It kills political wisdom.
Starting point is 01:44:34 You know, he brings about the example of Cromwell refusing an alliance to Spain at the height of its power and then taking an alliance with France, even though Spain and France had similar religions, similar, you know, all this other stuff, but Spain was materially and politically better suited than France was to England's interests, right? And so basically what infusing morality into politics does is it makes you into a fucking idiot. It makes you into someone incapable of recognizing what is politically expedient to the ends of your friends and what is most detrimental to the ends of your enemies. On the other hand, right, with the Lincoln Roosevelt type of allowing morality to be a, front for cynicism, right? This is the opposite problem arises, which you have no, you have no real, I'm a, you have no real principles for fighting.
Starting point is 01:45:40 You're simply doing it entirely for robbing and for personal gain and for for means not political, right? And, and it, and it, what it does is it drags down the concept of a higher being, right, that, that, uh, that yaki talks about of culture. man. Culture man does political ends in order to realize himself. He does all of his ends in order to realize himself, his higher ambition, his higher way of being. With the Faustian man, it is achieving infinite space, right? It is this thing that is above material desires or or other such things in which all of your efforts are directed towards, right? When you have
Starting point is 01:46:21 pure cynicism in politics, not Machiavellianism, because Machiavellianism, because Machia Avalianism is actually the perfect medium, right? But pure cynicism in politics, that is when you go back to being a sort of a man is animal. Man is overly concerned with his stomach, right? There is no higher purpose. There is no higher being. It is just acting to enrich yourself for no end. The second paragraph in which he talks about the differences of concepts of hatred.
Starting point is 01:46:54 Hatred is a personal thing. You know, you can't hate someone or something you do not know, right? You can feel like you are threatened by it. You can see it as a threat, but that is different from hate. Hate is when someone has done something or not done something to arouse personal animosity within someone, right? That is what the original definition of hatred was. It was between two individuals or two groups of individuals who know each other, personally. It's like the one person you know better than your friend is your rival is is someone
Starting point is 01:47:33 who, um, is someone who has done you wrong. You know, there's a, I heard this on Stain Haynes stream with, um, with Prudentialist recently about how I'm, uh, there was this professional wrestlers who said, uh, someone who likes you will, uh, will come to your show to shake your hand and someone who hates you will drive three counties over to scream at you from the best seat in the house, right? So that's, that's what Yaki is talking about when he talks about hatred, right? Hatred is in many ways more intimate, more, one of the closest ways you can be to someone than, than friendship, right? And that's not what, that's not what happened in the age of absolute politics in the 20th century, right? Hatred was distorted, was sort of
Starting point is 01:48:19 turned into a, into a resentment, a sort of envy, right, which he starts getting into in the third paragraph in which extra European forces, which can be defined as the colored world that Spengler talks about in the hour of decision, basically any part of planet Earth that is not the European high culture, that is not the West, sort of arousing within them their natural resentment, their natural envy, their natural desire to tear down, and essentially holding that up as this moral good, disguising it. in moral terms to bring down these evil people doing evil things. And Thomas talks about, I think Thomas talked about this in your show when he,
Starting point is 01:49:04 the idea of unconditional surrender as absolute insanity to the Third Reich. Unconditional surrender is the, is the epitome of this. It is, it doesn't matter what you do or what you say, we're going to keep attacking you and attacking you and attacking you until we get tired, right? That is not politics. That is, that is, that's something else. I had a thought, but I need to flesh that out before. I don't want to flesh it out while I'm talking.
Starting point is 01:49:37 I'll just be stuttering more than I normally do. I'm going to continue. Thus, a moral war to end war develops in actuality into an endless war. A war for humanitarian purposes develops into a war to exterminate by starvation, the population of the former state. A war against concentration camps results in bigger and more numerous concentration camps. This must be so in an age of absolute politics for obviously moral reasons for a war we are not necessary. We are not necessary in such an age.
Starting point is 01:50:14 No, let me read that again. I apologize. This must be so in an age of absolute politics for obviously moral reasons for a war are not necessarily. in such an age. Propaganda cannot bring more men onto the battlefield than can the spirit of the age. Therefore, he who is using the vocabulary of morality wishes to import into the struggle of viciousness that the spirit of politics alone cannot develop. Produne observed, whoever says humanity wishes to deceive. Only politics shows the real meaning of war. economics, aesthetics, law, and the other forms of thought cannot supply its meaning for war
Starting point is 01:50:57 as politics at its highest intensity. The political meaning of a war is that it is waged against a real enemy. To be justified politically, the war must be an affirmation of the political organism or for the saving of the organism. To expend human life in any other war is distortion of the destiny of the state and treacherous, dishonorable killing of the soldiers and civilians who die in it. The decision as to who is the enemy must be made by statesmen who embody the national idea, and if it is not, the result is political distortion. In the language of politics, a just war is only the one waged against a real enemy. It is immature thinking to suggest that military men should decide in such matters. It is possible for a politician to be also a
Starting point is 01:51:52 soldier, but a soldier does not become ipso facto a politician. In Rome, all statesmen, generally speaking, were ex-commanders, but they had gone into the field as part of their political careers. Caesar embarked late in life upon the military career, but how many professional soldiers could have gone into politics with corresponding attainment. In matters of politics, soldiers are circumstanced the same as the populace in general. So these three paragraphs
Starting point is 01:52:24 are a conclusion to this section and a further, in a recapitulation, a reinforcement to the main point that Yaqui writes this entire book to essentially elaborate upon, which is the fulfillment of the national idea or the inner concept, right, or of self-actualization, self-fulfillment, self-realizing,
Starting point is 01:52:52 right, to realize the mission within oneself, within the idea of a high culture, of a civilization, of a nation, right? So a war to end all war develops into an endless war because it is fundamental for political wisdom in order to understand that war is a aspect of reality, right? war is something to be accepted. And you can only have peace when you accept that fact, right? Otherwise, you are in denial about the endless war that has been fought since 1945.
Starting point is 01:53:27 And another key point that Yaqui says in that paragraph, propaganda cannot bring more men onto the battlefield than can the spirit of the age. propaganda can't convince someone to go to war you can't put up a i need uncle sam needs you poster or something like that and convince someone who wasn't already considering the possibility or didn't already feel like it was something they needed to do right um this is why the concept of the draft is uh is abhorrent because what it does is it essentially just forces people up into um uh in or i guess maybe maybe yaki would argue the draft is another manifestation of the spirit of the age but it just on its head the concept of the draft is is disgusting
Starting point is 01:54:23 because what it does is it brings up people who aren't meant to participate in a military struggle and then forces them to participate in that military struggle which leads to even further strife um but like like if if a man feels you know know of a man of higher purpose uh intellectual or non intellectual right if a man who understands himself and understands what he needs to do feels like he needs to go fight he will fight it is it that's just that's just part of what he wants to do of what he needs to do right no poster no no um clip nothing like that can uh can force him to do that right and um um third in that paragraph i'm uh prudone who was a, I think he was a Marxist thinker, uh, says, whoever says,
Starting point is 01:55:12 narco commune, it was like an anarcho communist, I think, um, or a mutualist. I, I can't remember right now. He was one of, he was one of that late 19th century milieu of weirdos. Um, and he says, uh, whoever says humanity wishes to deceive there, I'm, I'm going to use a Demester quote, uh, Joseph Demester said, I have never met a human. I have met Russians. I have met Frenchmen. I have met Savoyards, I have met Germans, but I have never met a human, right? The concept of human is an abstract concept. It does not exist. Not even in, honestly, not even in biological classifications, I think, because in order to avoid, to avoid getting your show too badly hit, let's just say it throws out the concept of subspecies.
Starting point is 01:56:05 anyway um but that's that's the whole point is it's like you know this this idea of improving humanity is back to this luciferian utopian concept of world improving of making the world a better place of perfecting right uh which is which is foolish and impossible because it goes against the fundamental basis of existence and reality right these last two paragraphs you know only politics shows the real meaning of war and from there he goes into um the relationship between the military and the political. Aristocrats, which is generally the term used to apply to those who's thinking is political and military, because military is subservient to the political, it is within the political, but there's a reason
Starting point is 01:56:54 Klausvitz said war is politics by another means and not politics is war by another means, because that would be putting the cart before the horse, right? war war is inherently political and that that's why you have so many generals not just within the west but within all of human history getting military experience and then going into politics right or politicians getting military experience and going back into politics that's because the two fields are inherently related but soldiers in the purest sense of the term exist really only to prosecute war they can't just because they are good at you know using their weapons they're good at coordinating with other men does not inherently predispose themselves to understanding
Starting point is 01:57:37 the friend-enemy distinction of politics, right? And this is this is why it's like Yaki says in the final paragraph that military men, right, should not be put in charge of political matters for the same reason you don't put economists in charge or churchmen in charge because it would be like it would be like having an engineer run an engineering firm it's not it's not a good idea because the engineer thinks purely professionally and not in the wider business sense if that metaphor makes sense right but you can have a um you can have a head of a business firm who knows who was an engineer at one point and knows knows the professionalisms of the firm right it's it's it's it's really just a difference in the um in the two modes of thinking
Starting point is 01:58:30 right and and that's the whole point yaki is kind of trying to drive towards is that the political are those who are those who understand the higher mission are those who understand the higher purpose of the faustian high culture of the west of europe in order to realize it using the means of force of diplomacy of politics and that's what sort of the uh the last three paragraphs are um are trying to drive towards i think it's interesting that, like, some, you know, to take it back to libertarians, because that's where I came from, the, a lot of them will be able to look at, like, modern libertarianism, the libertarian party, what the libertarian party was before some people recently took it over was very left wing, very progressive. What I like to say was they were using libertarian means to achieve progressive ends. And, Yet, when it comes to, and it wasn't until I read this book, that I realized that the whole idea of arguing for morality and war comes from the left, comes from the far left. It comes from those who want to have these, what he says, thus a moral war to end war develops in actuality into an endless war.
Starting point is 01:59:57 So those arguing that, like, I was listening to Orrin McIntyre talking to Glenn Greenwald earlier, and Glenn Greenwald was arguing that, you know, war historically in the United States always comes from the right. Well, that's, technically that's not true. And when you really start to take apart how morality is. something that everyone thinks is a good thing. And yes, it is in your personal life. It goes back to the non-aggression principle. The non-aggression principle is for your personal life. It's not for your political life. It has no people like Sam Francis and James Burnham would laugh at you if you talked about the non-aggression principle. I mean, even people older, going back further, Melchiavelli would have laughed at you if you would have started bringing in like the non-aggression
Starting point is 02:00:51 principle into politics. I mean, that's a joke that you have been deceived by the left. and they're in charge, and they make the rules, and they change them on you all the time. And I think that's why this book, particularly of any book I've ever read, has been able to take what are thoughts that are going in every direction and is able for you to focus, and then you can look and you can see with tunnel vision, with almost absolute vision, what the world is and how it used to run and now how it is, you can see the complete distortion of what the world is at this time. And I know I've said this a lot in the last couple of years, but libertarianism does not have an answer for this. It is, it will deceive you.
Starting point is 02:01:56 it is deceiving you if you think that you can understand how the world actually works by reading those works maybe Hapa because Hapa has read the juvenile and has read a lot of the what would be considered the neo-reactionary kind of base books and writers that you should be reading but for people talking about anarchy and things like that you better incorporate the real world into that or else you're just you're out in left field somewhere and you're just I don't know what it is. It's just like
Starting point is 02:02:35 shooting a Nerf gun into the sky and expecting to kill your enemies and to destroy your enemies. Ran over. To restate that I'm a Spangler quote I said at the beginning of this show peace is a desire, war is a fact.
Starting point is 02:02:53 And history has paid no heed. to human wants and desires, right? The idea, the idea that you can separate yourself from conflict, that you can keep yourself away from it, that you can rise above it is not just foolish. It is downright dangerous because if, you know, if let's say, you know, a man is walking up to your house. with a loaded gun, do you just sit there and you say, I'm not going to fight this?
Starting point is 02:03:30 All right. Well, if that's what you do, well, then that's not, that's not like taking the high ground. That's surrender is what that is. That is not even putting up a fight. That is not even resisting in any way, shape, or form. And then that man walking up to your house with that gun can do exactly what he intended upon doing without any sort of interference on your behalf. that is that is the um the largest problem i've had with things like the not the non-aggression
Starting point is 02:04:00 principle because when war when war presents itself to you you must make a choice and that choice is whether to fight it because the choice is between fighting it and submitting those are those are your two choices you cannot make a third choice you must resist or you must submit, right? You know, even, that's it. Those are your two choices. No, no, like, you can't be neutral. You can't rise above it. You can't do all this other stuff. You either resist or you submit. Those are, those are, um, um, um, the two choices. And this idea, this sort of this, this, this, this, this corruption of, um, of those two choices into like, oh, well, we're going to end you needing to make that choice. That comes from, as you said, the far left.
Starting point is 02:04:49 that comes from these progressive means by libertarian ends, but more so than that, I've used the word Luciferian quite a bit on this program, and I would like to define what I mean by that. If you look at the story of Lucifer as the greatest angel, the greatest of God's creations, and then the pride that came with that, of believing itself to be greater,
Starting point is 02:05:19 than creation, right? That is what the Luciferian concept comes from. It goes further. The idea that you can create creation better than creation, right? That you can create an abstract world separate and above the world that from once you came. That is what the far left wants to achieve. That's what that's what Globo Homo wants to achieve. homogenization. That is what culture distortion wants to achieve, right? It's this idea of creating a
Starting point is 02:05:56 purely artificial world, a purely abstract world, not beholden to realities, not beholden to creation, not beholden to God, right? This is this is, Deus ex machina is the Latin phrase to describe this God from the machine, essentially trying to reinvent the wheel, to reinvent God. to recreate the world we live in in order to conform to their desires, their strange wants and urges and worst primal aspects. That's what they're going for. And that's what we're fighting against. And that's what I mean when I say Luciferian.
Starting point is 02:06:43 Yeah, it's kind of hard to talk to. People have asked me over the past couple of days. It's like, so I mean, like, how do you talk to people that you used to hang out with? And I'm like, actually, people would be shocked at the amount of people who really understand the direction, the path that I've taken. They won't say it out loud. They won't say it on Twitter. They won't say it on Facebook. They won't announce it.
Starting point is 02:07:11 But they will whisper it in my ear when they see me. And I think that people are starting to understand that. a lot of what they've been taught is just infused with naivete, and I don't discount the fact that it could have been on purpose. It just, at this point, when you look at the world, when you look at especially what the world has become since 9-11, and especially in the last 24 or 25 months, it is very difficult for me personally to deal with people still holding on to this morality of, well, you know, I don't care that these people are evil.
Starting point is 02:08:03 I'm not going to resort to something evil to stop. And, I mean, that argument is, it could be used for self-defense. It's like, well, I mean, somebody breaking into your house with a gun is evil. Well, I mean, the act of repelling them, I've heard people make the arguments that it's evil. Not a lot of people, but there are pacifists out there, and there are people who are your enemy who are telling you that. And just being able to focus and understand, you know, something that another part in Imperium that really shook me when I read it was Yaqui talking about how power is a constant. that power doesn't disappear. It's just there. It's just a matter of who has it. You're not going to be able to destroy that power ever, ever. It is a, it's like air. I mean, air could be
Starting point is 02:09:02 destroyed depending on, you know, the earth going off its axis, whatever, but it's, it's just there. And to, there are a lot of people out there, and I'm one who used to make the argument that if we just get rid of that power, that power is immoral. If we just get rid of that power and no one can wield that power, then we can live, we can live free. And it's so weird to get to a place where you're just like, how delusional was I? How diluted in my thinking was I? And those arguments are just so awful intellectually. And, you know, I consider myself to be an intelligent person. And it's like, it's just, it's really, really odd.
Starting point is 02:09:55 It's really odd to get to this place where I can't see the world any differently now. And, you know, the only really things that change for me are reading more and just basically fine-tuning at this point. really the only thing now is solutions on how do you get out of this? And I mean, I have some, but I have a couple, but they're not perfect. And it seems like everybody who wants a solution wants it to be perfect. You know, they, because they don't want to try. They don't want to, they don't want to fail. You know, failure is, I don't know, failure is anathema to people. I just, I mean, I've failed a thousand times at a thousand things, and it's helped me.
Starting point is 02:10:47 But, yeah, I mean, I'm going on a rant again, too. It's just, it's very frustrating, especially when I read, when I read things like this that basically spell everything out so clearly as to the reality of the world we live in, and then to continually have answers thrown at me or explanations for why things are happening, that I used to give, but are so far out of the realm of reality at this point. It's frustrating. And you know, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing to know that I used to make some of the most insane arguments. And, you know, that's a good thing about having a Facebook account that is still active from years ago is all these memories come up every day and you can look back
Starting point is 02:11:34 and go, what the hell was wrong with me at this point? Where was I? And, Was I doing any damage by putting this information out there? It's a real, it's an odd point right now. We're in an odd point in history that I think a lot of people think has happened before, oh, this history just repeats itself over and over again. I think this point's pretty different and pretty, pretty unique. There was a lot, a lot there. And I, you know, I agree with all of it.
Starting point is 02:12:10 I have a very similar story myself of sort of, you know, I was never a libertarian in the sense that some other people's were, but I was, you know, one who was engaging with liberal ideas and to a certain extent saw himself as a liberal at one point. And yeah, I mean, this idea of how do we fix this? How do we solve it? That is, I think that's the next big question. I think we're, as, I said last time there's an epical shift happening and I think as a part of this epical shift there will be no more going into old texts of reviving thinkers all of that will be a thing of this epic we're still in but is very quickly ending right I think I
Starting point is 02:12:59 think in many ways honestly I think Yaqui has been the final answer all along and and others related to him he's been the last thinker people are going to need to consume people are going to need to engage with in order to get the proper tools and go into the next epic into the next zeitgeist which will entirely revolve around action around solutions around realizing these ideas that we've been having that we've been debating that we've been theorizing that we've been improving right and you know this is this is partially what my whole trip across the United States was supposed to start realizing, was interacting with people in the real world, speaking with them in the real world, sharing ideas, proposing solutions, figuring
Starting point is 02:13:53 ways that we can work within this system to accomplish keeping the eye of Sauron off of us while building our own strength, right? That's been what all of this is geared towards. And, you know, I mean, that's what the future is going to have. That's what the future is going to be. It is going to just be gentlemen discussing with each other ways that they can go about reversing the damage caused of taking that power that is always there and using it in order to restore the world as it is supposed to be. Well, it's going to be quite a ride. It's going to be saying quite a ride actually makes it sound trivial, but it is going to be a hike.
Starting point is 02:14:52 It's going to be a hall. And hopefully people can get prepared for it. And the answers, I mean, I have a couple. I've talked about them. But even those, they're not going to be perfect. They may not even work. And, you know, but people want answers and you try to provide. You try to be able, at least if you're educated on what's happening and you're not delusional about what's happening,
Starting point is 02:15:24 the answers that you try to come up with can be closer than the people who just have no idea what's going on at this point. All right, why don't you give your plugs? and we'll end this stream. Yeah, thank you very much for having me once again. And the audience can find my substack, Paulfarenheit.substack.com. I haven't written a bunch because I was traveling, but I have a whole bunch of articles.
Starting point is 02:15:53 I'm currently working on finishing to kind of recap and give the sort of mental vignettes of each place I went to. And hopefully I'll have a podcast episode coming later. In addition, you can find me on Twitter at Cav King Paul. You can also find a link to my telegram chat and channel on my Twitter pinned to the top. I mean, other than that, I don't think there's anything else.
Starting point is 02:16:26 Thank you for this. And very soon, let's do this again. It would be my pleasure and honor. Thank you, Paul. Take care now. I want to welcome everyone back to the Piquaneda show, returning to talk more about Francis Parker Yaqui and read him. Paul Fahrenheit, how are you doing, Paul?
Starting point is 02:16:48 Doing very well, Pete. Thanks for having me on again. Of course, of course. So we are going to read the section of Imperium that is called the Articulation of a Culture. Why don't you give an introduction and talk a little bit about this? Yes. So the articulation of a culture is actually my favorite single chapter from Imperium. I've read through Imperium front to back at least three times.
Starting point is 02:17:16 I've referenced different sections more times than I can count. And each time I always return to the articulation of a culture because the great thing about this chapter is what it essentially does is it entirely condenses the sort of Spanglerian view of history, but also Yaqui adds his own sort of his own understanding of it with with eyes to different theories of history, including the sort of world systems theory that was later popularized by figures such as Nick Land. And the whole point of this, the whole point of this chapter is in basically as short of a time as possible, Yaki is attempting to outline how civilizations work,
Starting point is 02:18:03 how, you know, the phases they all go through, the beginning, the end, the landmarks that come with each phase. And he's attempting to synthesize it and apply it to the paths of the West. And he does, what he does, unlike a lot of historians that are outlining a system, he uses quite a few specific examples that are, aren't necessarily mentioned very often within discourses on this topic is he uses specific examples as landmarks, as means of referring to these different parts of a stage, as these different parts of a phase of the life cycle of a civilization. And that's why I think this chapter is among
Starting point is 02:18:47 the best imperial. All right. I'm going to get this up on the screen, and I'm just going to start reading, and as with all of my readings, jump in when you want to. All right, the articulation of a culture. The nations, thought forms, art forms, and ideas which are the expression of the development of a culture are always in the custody of a comparatively small group. How large this group is, how easily it can replenish itself, depends on the character of the culture. In this respect, the classical culture is instructive. Its ideas were one and all exoteric. Socrates conducts his philosophizing in the Agora. In our case, the picture of Leibniz and Descartes, carrying on such activity would be ludicrous in the extreme, for Western
Starting point is 02:19:38 philosophy is the possession of a very few. But any culture, even the exoteric classical, is restricted for its full expression in whatever direction to certain levels of the populations in its area. Culture is by its very nature, selective, exclusive. The use of the word in the personal sense, a cultured man describes a man out of the ordinary, a man whose ideas and attitudes are ordered and articulated. Cultured in the personal sense means devoted to something beyond one's self,
Starting point is 02:20:16 and one's own domestic well-being. In the 19th century, world picture, with its atomistic mania, only individuals existed, nothing higher. Therefore, the word was used to describe a practitioner or appreciator of art or literature. But patriotism, devotion to duty, ethical imperative, heroism, self-sacrifice, are also an expression of culture. Primitive man does not evince them. a war is just as a war is just as much an expression of culture as a poem a factory as a cathedral
Starting point is 02:20:54 a rifle as a statue those are two very very very important paragraphs to kind of focus on what is what is yaki say in the first paragraph well yaki compares the example of socrates to leibnitz and descartes socrates and his successors by virtue of their practicing philosophy they would be out in public talking to people just on a regular market day, just on in some sort of forum, in the bathhouse and all this other stuff. You know, this would be the equivalent of, let's say, going to Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday night and talking about, you know, men of race and the ethical imperative of Western Christianity as compared to Eastern Christianity.
Starting point is 02:21:42 It's not, that's not what you do here, right? the West, the West has at least compared to what Yaqui is referring to in that first paragraph, he's making reference to what Spengler calls the Apollonian high culture, the sort of Greco-Roman civilization as a separate concept from the northwestern European Christian Faustian post-Sharlemagne civilization. It's a lot more top-heavy as compared to the, as compared to the Greco-Roman. within the Greco-Roman, even the quantitative
Starting point is 02:22:18 the quantitative number of people within the Greco-Roman high culture was simply smaller, right? And by virtue of that, by virtue of that, not only that, but their internal expression of culture, their whole means of displaying philosophy, of displaying ideas,
Starting point is 02:22:36 of what Yaki starts talking about in the second paragraph, is far more in interaction with the rest of the people, because there's a much higher baseline, you know, that the average, let's just say the average IQ, the average receptivity to culture amongst the Apollonian high culture was much higher than it is in the Faustian, right? In the Faustian high culture, the Western European high culture, it's much lower. As a matter of fact, it's baseline, like, you know, we talk about midwits,
Starting point is 02:23:05 we talk about normies, that has always been the case within the Western high culture. It wasn't so much the case back in the days of Liebnitz or Descartes. but it still was the case. Like, you know, we, the Faustian high culture very much has this idea of the elites versus the proles, which wasn't, wasn't so much emphasized as much in, say, Greco-Roman civilization or even even, even the Magian high culture. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. And so when you think about it, you know, Liebnitz and Descartes, they were doing their
Starting point is 02:23:40 philosophizing in a solitary room. at a desk with no one disturbing them. They were, they were alone. They were soul atoms wrangling with the, for Descartes, he was wrangling with the concept of God and the individual. And for Leibniz, he was wrangling with actually the same thing. And both of them were figuring this out through mathematics. And so when you think about it, like Leibnitz or Descartes couldn't go to a fucking
Starting point is 02:24:07 pub or a tavern and say Amsterdam or somewhere like that and just start talking about I think therefore I am or something like that and expect the average peasant to understand it. You know, this is, this is why a lot of people get caught up in the, in the Christian narrative of the West is there's really, the Christian, you know, Moldberg talks about the two-story state. That's also an interesting thing that's always existed within the West. Even Christianity itself is kind of a two-tiered religion. There's the, there's the version of it that the masses are taught, that the masses are told, which isn't false. It's not a false. It's not a false. version of it. It's just simplified. But then there's the super complex esoteric version that's
Starting point is 02:24:48 taught to priests, to learned scholars, to clergymen of other sorts, to government officials, all of that. And this is where Yaqui in the second paragraph starts articulating this concept that he gets to later in the section, which is called the culture-bearing stratum. The culture-bearing stratum, if you're thinking about a high culture like a human body, right, you're thinking about a high culture like a human body. Think of the culture-bearing stratum as the brain, as the consciousness, right? The brain is the seed of consciousness. The brain isn't the whole body, right?
Starting point is 02:25:25 The brain isn't, you know, on its own, it can't really do anything. It has to use all aspects of the human body to perform an action. However, comma, the brain is that which controls what the body does. Without the brain, the body collapses upon itself because it's just matter. that point and this is kind of this is the metaphor to sort of keep in mind as we go further on into it that that this is what the culture bearing stratum within every high culture fills especially even more so that of the west because of how top heavy and how much of a high barrier to entry into it there is um one last thing before we go on i want to point out that final
Starting point is 02:26:04 sentence he says in that second paragraph a war is just as much an expression of culture as a poem a factory as a cathedral, a rifle as a statue. Within, you know, dissident right discourse, oftentimes we fall into the trap that culture is only that which is beautiful, only that which is art, music, literature, anything like that. But really, an expression of culture can be anything, right? Take the artisan who, take the artisan who creates a piece of furniture, right? That's an expression of culture.
Starting point is 02:26:38 It may not necessarily be art in the same way, But that specific way he creates that couch, he creates that chair, that Ottoman, has been dictated by the styles and techniques of the culture of his fathers that develop them over the process of the development of the high culture, which is, you know, internal coming out external. It's the same thing with a factory. A factory is just a different version, is just the modern version, or at least a industrial version, of something which existed in age beforehand, right? especially within the Faustian culture same thing with a rifle right and so that's that's kind of like like don't get trapped in this sort of much as I love the the points that Ted Kaczynski makes don't get so much trapped in this like the modernity the modern world is all evil and all of it is like luciferic or whatever some of that is true to be sure but but really all that a lot of
Starting point is 02:27:34 these things are especially machines are just expressions of things that existed earlier within a culture. All right. Moving on. A high culture in the course of its fulfillment acts in all directions of thought and action and on every person within its area. The intensity of its action in a given direction depends on the culture's soul. Some of the cultures have been passionately historical, like the Chinese, some completely ahistoric, like the Indian. Some have developed massive techniques like the Egyptian and our own. Some have ignored techniques like the classical and Mexican. The intensity of the impression of the culture on individuals is proportional to their receptivity to the spiritual impressions. The individual
Starting point is 02:28:23 of small soul and limited horizon lives for himself because he understands nothing else. To such a man, Western music is merely an alternate up and down, loud and soft, philosophy is mere words, history is a collection of fairy tales, even the reality of which is not inwardly felt. Politics is the selfishness of the great, military conscription, a burden which his lack of moral courage forces him to accept. Thus, even his individualism is a mere denial of anything higher and not an affirming of his own soul. The extraordinary man is the one who puts everything else before his own life and security.
Starting point is 02:29:07 Even as he faced a firing squad, William Walker could have saved his life by merely renouncing his claim to president of Nicaragua. To the common man, this is insane. Before we go into the next paragraph, the reason in the next paragraph very much outlines this sort of, this point we're making, and Yaqui contrasts the culture-bearing stratum to let's say your average sports fan in Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday night. What he's doing right now is he's describing
Starting point is 02:29:37 your average sports fan in a Buffalo Wild Wings on a Friday night because to that person in that restaurant who has no idea about anything other than like sort of his vague internal feelings, he is, he's in many ways he's like plant life. He's like plant life or he's like deer or any other sort of thing.
Starting point is 02:29:56 You know, he just kind of exists. He kind of exists and is completely shaped by the by the by the what's what's the right way to say this the external expressions of the culture he doesn't he doesn't know why he wears this Buffalo Bill's jersey
Starting point is 02:30:13 he doesn't know why he's drinking beer or why the beer is called Pilsner or why he's eating mozzarella sticks or a burger or he doesn't care no nor care why any of those things are called what they're called and why they came to exist he simply does
Starting point is 02:30:30 he acts right he has no moral principles right he'll get caught up in a in a rush of emotions like the rest of the crowd does you know this is why you'll see people you know a good example of this is actually if you look at the united states during their entry into world war one not so much their entry into world war two but they're entry into world war one you see all sorts of war fever going off you know people are talking about how you know they're going to they're going to go out and they're going to kill all of them single-handedly because in many ways that is a intoxication of feeling. It's a nationwide intoxication of feeling. That's why these people so often abuse drugs. This is why you see such a fentanyl problem within middle America because these
Starting point is 02:31:12 people don't understand. They cannot internally inwardly make themselves feel things. They are entirely shaped by external factors. So this is why they become alcoholics. They think drinking is the sole purpose of their lives. They think doing drugs is the sole purpose of their lives going to football games at Kedra, at Kedra, at Kedra, at Kedra. That is why, you know, Yaki is taking such pains to differentiate this type of person from the type of person he is talking about in this chapter, the member of the culture bearing stratum. Continuing, the common man is unjust, but not on principle. He is selfish, but is incapable of the imperative of Ibsen's exalted selfishness. He is the slave of his passions,
Starting point is 02:32:03 but incapable of higher sexual love, for even this is an expression of culture. Primitive man simply would not understand Western erotic, if it were explained to him, this sublimation of passions into metaphysics. He lacks any sort of honor and will submit to any humiliation rather than revolt. It is always leader natures who revolt. He gambles in the hope of winning, and if he loses, he whimpers. He would rather live on his knees than die on his feet. He accepts the loudest voice as to true one. He follows the leader of the moment, but only so far and when the leader is eclipsed by a new one. He points out his record of opposition. In victory, he is a bully. In defeat, he is a lackey. His talk is big. His deed is. His deed. He
Starting point is 02:32:53 small. He likes to play, but has no sportsmanship. Great thoughts and plans he castigates as megalomania. Anyone who tries to pull him up and along the road of higher accomplishment he hates, and when the chance offers, he crucifies him like Christ, burns him like Savonorella, kicks his dead body in the square in Milan. He is always laughing at the discomfiture of another, but he has no sense of humor and is equally incapable of true seriousness. He denounces the crime of passion, but eagerly reads the literature of such crimes. He herds in the street to see an action and enjoys another sustain that blows the blows of fate. He does not care if his countrymen are spilling blood as long as he is secure.
Starting point is 02:33:48 He is everything mean and unheroic, but he does not care. he lacks the mentality of an Iago or Richard the 3rd. He has no access to culture, and when he dares, he persecutes anyone who has. Nothing delights him more than to see a great leader fall. He hated Metternich and Wellington, the symbols of tradition. He refused as Reichstad to send ex-chancellor Bismarck a birthday greeting. He makes up the constituency of all parliaments everywhere, and he invades all councils of war to advise prudence and caution. If beliefs
Starting point is 02:34:23 to which he was committed become dangerous, he recants. They were never his anyway. He is the inner weakness of every organism, the enemy of all greatness, the material of treason. So this is that's just a paragraph
Starting point is 02:34:38 essentially just explaining, further explaining, further elaborating the common man, as Yaqui explains it. And, you know, I'm not going to beat a dead horse here, but, you know, he says it in no uncertain terms there. This isn't a scheming Machiavellian whose selfishness is his utmost priority. You know, this is not Yago or Richard III. Shakespeare's two most famous antagonists.
Starting point is 02:35:04 They're not, they're not like, they're not selfish cowards in a cool way, I suppose, is the right way to say. they're they're the kind of person that will beg you not to kill them um if you if you threaten their life and then the second you turn you're back on them they'll turn on you to try to kill you and but but like it's like it's it's it's the same way as you what's what's what's the right word to use to describe children children there you go these are people who never stop thinking like children who never, never order themselves internally because they can't order themselves internally. They're moved by their passions. They're feminine.
Starting point is 02:35:47 That's another way of describing it. But, you know, that's not to damn women because there are a select few of women who are capable of ordering themselves or are capable of sublimating themselves to a man who can order themselves. This is, this is what Yaqui's talking about. This is not the culture bearing stratum. This is not the high culture. This is just humanity at its base state.
Starting point is 02:36:08 Humanity is an animal that will ensure its own survival through any means fair or foul without any sort of outside interference. This is humanity. Man is nature, I guess, man is animal, the fifth day of creation, I suppose, which is the right way of describing this. It is not such human stuff that an exacting high culture can use to further its destiny. The common man is the material with which the great political leaders in democratic conditions work. In earlier centuries, the common man did not attend the cultural drama.
Starting point is 02:36:46 It did not interest him, and the participants were not yet under the rationalistic spell, the counting mania, as Nietzsche called it. When democratic conditions proceed to their extreme, the result is that even the leaders are common men with the jealous and crooked soul of envy that to which they are not equal, like Roosevelt and his cuttory in America. In his cult of the common man, he was deifying himself, like Caligula. The abolition of quality smothers the exceptional man in his youth and turns him into a cynic. That last sentence, I'm not going to talk for 45 minutes, but that last sentence there, the abolition of quality smothers the exceptional man in his youth and turns him into a cynic.
Starting point is 02:37:31 I think this sentence describes the phenomenon that we see within dissident movements entirely. You know, whether it's us in the dissident right, those on what you call the dirtbag left, you know, even people closer to Normicon, right? Many of them are black-pilled, as we would call it. They're black-pilled because they feel as though there's nothing that they can do because they understand that in many ways they are exceptional, whether it be vis-a-vis intelligence, wisdom, strength, anything else, as compared to their fellow men. Um, but because, because of how the system is set up to promote the common man, to promote this, this disgusting human stock, these people who can't even, these people who can't even understand why they're called humans or why they, why they exist. So they become cynical. They become black pill because they feel
Starting point is 02:38:28 there's nothing that can be done about it, because they have the intelligence to realize how much the odds really are stacked up against them, and therefore they kind of smother their own genius in the crib. This is why I actually think that dissident movements were such an important thing to develop, even if they have kind of gone off the rails. Because even though you can already see the common man has infiltrated these dissonant movements.
Starting point is 02:38:50 It's like, wow, you said the same take, you wrote the same Twitter thread about, you know, monkey in a cage jerking off or something amazing. But that's the thing. in the in the way things are set up now the member of the culture bearing stratum who in other ages would have been recruited would have been trained would have been specific his talents would have been utilized so that he could further the ends of the organism which means his material needs would have been taken care of he might not have been rich but he would have certainly didn't need to worry about where to eat he would have been trained how to do something meaningful and he would have taken pride in that in that in that sort of sort of, how should I say, and that sort of talent that he has. And he would have done great deeds to further the end of the society. And I'm not just talking about artists being patronized by wealthy nobles. I'm talking about great generals, would have certainly been
Starting point is 02:39:48 recognized, would have certainly gotten friends amongst the military establishment, amongst other wealthy benefactors. And even the wealthy benefactors. Some people would have had a talent for making money and a talent for recognizing talent that they could then back, right? This is also a part of the culture-bearing stratum, which actually Yaqui talks about later in this passage, the role of a masonos, of the patron, right? That's actually an important cultural role. And you are a member of the culture-bearing stratum if you're like this millionaire who all you do is you just pay for people better than you to do things. That still makes you a part of the culture-bearing stratum. Anyway, that's just kind of what I wanted to say is it's like Yaki describes the thing that
Starting point is 02:40:30 makes dissidents, usually the human stock of the next elite. In earlier centuries, there was no suggestion anywhere that the masses of the population had a part to play. When this idea does triumph, it turns out that the only role these masses can play is the passive one of unwieldy building material for the articulate part of the population? What is the physical articulation of the body of the culture? The more exacting the nature of the cultural task, the higher the type of humanity required for its performance. There is in all cultures a spiritual level of the entire population called the culture-bearing stratum. It is this articulation of culture populations alone, which makes the expression of a high culture
Starting point is 02:41:18 possible. It is the technique of living the habitus of the culture. The culture-bearing stratum is the custodian of the wealth of expression forms of the culture. To it belong all the creators in the domains of religion, philosophy, science, music, literature, the arts of form, mathematics, politics, techniques, and war, as well as the non-creators who fully understand and themselves experience the developments in this higher world, the appreciators. So within itself, the culture-bearing stratum is articulated into creators and appreciators. It is in general the latter who transmit the great creations downward insofar as this is possible. This process serves to recruit the higher material wherever it appears into the culture-bearing stratum.
Starting point is 02:42:10 The process of replenishment is continually going on, for the culture-bearing stratum is not hereditary in any strict sense. The culture-bearing stratum is a purely spiritual level of the populace of the culture. It has no economic, political, social, or other hallmark. Some of its most luminous creators have lived and died in one. Example, Beethoven and Schubert. Other souls, equally creative, but less rugged, have been strangled by poverty. Chatterton. Many of its creative members go through their lives entirely unnoticed, Mendel, Kierkegaard, Copernicus.
Starting point is 02:42:50 Others are mistaken for mere talents, Shakespeare, Rembrandt. The culture-bearing stratum is not recognized by its contemporaries in any way as a unity, nor does it recognize itself as one. As a stratum, it is invisible, like the culture-bearing stratum. culture it carries. Because it is a purely psychic stratum, it can be given no material description to satisfy the intellectuals. Even the intellectuals would admit, however, that Europe or America could be thrown into a material chaos from which it would take years to emerge if the few thousands in the higher technical ranks were removed. These technicians are a part of the culture bearing stratum, although it is not merely occupational. Technicians, of course,
Starting point is 02:43:37 like economic leaders or military leaders, play purely subordinate roles in the culture drama. The most important part of this stratum at any one time is the group which is the custodian of the highest idea. Thus in Dante's time, Emperor and Pope were the two highest symbols of reality, and it was in the service of one another, of either one of these symbols that their leading members of the culture-bearing stratum were then to be found. The highest symbolic force was then transferred to the dynasties, and dynastic politics claimed its lives during its centuries. With the coming of enlightenment and rationalism, the whole West goes into a crisis of long duration, and not less does the culture-bearing stratum. It was split even more than usual,
Starting point is 02:44:27 and only now, after two centuries, is it possible to restore its basic unity? I say more than usual, for it must not be supposed that the culture-bearing stratum ever was a sort of international, a freemasonry. On the contrary, it's applied leaders on both sides of every war and every tendency. So the reason I had those sort of three paragraphs read through without stopping is because this is essentially, this is Yaqui's description of the culture-bearing stratum. He outlines more or less every part of it. Right. For those of you, for those few of you who might have been at my, at my speech during the U.S. event in Nashville back in February, I emphasize this by having a visual example of a pyramid cut in half. Right. The culture bearing stratum is the top part of the pyramid, but there's still a line that cuts it in half, right? And he gets into what this line cutting them in half is in part two of this section.
Starting point is 02:45:34 But what he's talking about here, you know, the culture-bearing stratum, it's not a genetic thing, or at least it's not purely genetic. It's not hereditary, is what he says. It's like you can't, just because you're a noble, you're the X, X, whatever does not mean you're a part of the culture-bearing stratum. Nor is it like an occupational. You don't suddenly become a part of the culture-bearing stratum if, say, you become a engineer, right? um you don't become a part of the culture bearing stratum if say uh you go to college for ex profession y profession becoming a pilot something like that in many ways you could just be following along the um the the the path outlined for you um by the culture by the higher
Starting point is 02:46:21 by the actual parts of the culture bearing stratum it's also not really a big club it's not a club the way you would think of a club in which there is membership right there it's it's a club of clubs, I guess you could say. Clubs, you know, very much, the Freemasons were likely a part of the culture-bearing stratum, but they were only one part of it. You know, the Freemasons were directly opposed to, say, the Knights of Columbus, which were probably another part of the culture-bearing stratum, right?
Starting point is 02:46:47 It's, this is, and this is why I refer back to the sort of the pyramid, not the paragraph, the pyramid cut in half. The pyramid cut in half is both sides of the culture-bearing stratum. The what Yaqui will later outline is the forces of innovation and the forces of tradition. I'm not going to get into that right now, but it's like
Starting point is 02:47:08 you need to be, it needs to be understood that people who fulfill roles within the culture bearing stratum can come from quite literally anywhere. You know, people talk about genetic freaks born to like dirt poor peasant farmers, right? That's the, that is
Starting point is 02:47:24 the spirit of the civilization of the culture expressing itself through those unconventional means. You know, this is why rigid caste systems based on things like ethnicity, based on things like occupation, which is what we have now, based on things like family connections,
Starting point is 02:47:46 titles at Kedra are insufficient. Because you can have an individual of very low birth, but very high talent. You know, you can have someone who is born to a peasant father and a peasant mother who had probably an IQ of 60 each with like an 180 IQ who absolutely completely revolutionizes whatever field he goes into right you can have someone born to say two parents with 160 IQs each who's a freaking social retard who doesn't understand anything and can't do anything right like this isn't something that you can that you can predispose sure
Starting point is 02:48:25 you can take a lot of the risks. I'm not saying high IQ people shouldn't have kids with each other because on average you generally will that generally will propagate itself but it's not the same thing, right? You find members of the culture-bearing stratum wherever members of the culture-bearing stratum
Starting point is 02:48:41 are present. It's not something, you know, you can't give it a material description other than it, other than that sort of like X-factor, that sort of internal motivation, that vitalism, that connection to a connection to the high culture,
Starting point is 02:48:58 the spirit of the culture, the, the metaphysical images kind of pressing down onto the material plane from whatever higher planes they come from, right? And that's what the high culture is. They are the bearers of culture. They are the, they are those who maintain it. And the consequences of them maintaining it
Starting point is 02:49:22 end up being the societies from which they're a part of. And, you know, things like expressions of dress, things like cuisine, things like popular music, things like governmental systems. All this other stuff is just an expression of their work to maintain these ideas. And when Yonaki says the highest group of people is those who are the custodian of the highest idea at any given time. And he gives, in the Middle Ages, he gives the Pope and the emperor, that's the GELFs and the Ghibelines. that was the highest expression of culture during that time. He talks about dynastic politics. The highest expression of culture during the 17th, 18th centuries were those who serve the bourbons or the Habsburgs or the stewards or whatever other dynasty you can think of.
Starting point is 02:50:10 For the 19th century, that's when the idea of democracy comes about, you know, the democracy enlightenment mania. Believe it or not, during the 19th century, the highest idea, was democracy, was individualism, was materialism, and the greatest talents were found in that service. In the 20th century, at least the early 20th century, the highest talents were found supporting another idea. For the 21st, that conflict that happened in the 20th century, and Yaki talks about this later, has not yet been resolved. The 21st century, as with the 20th century, is what you're going to see as the resurgence of authority, right? People talk about Caesarism and all that.
Starting point is 02:50:53 Well, that's a part of this, right? And think to yourself, who was the individual within the past, say, 10, 15 years that held the highest idea? It was Donald Trump, obviously. So the greatest talents of this age, right? The greatest talents of the current time we have in, the members of the culture-bearing stratum of the high culture, find themselves in service of Donald Trump and of Trump's consequences. This is why I emphasize
Starting point is 02:51:19 his importance. Like there, we would not be sitting here having this conversation with as many listeners if it was not for Trump. Like there, there is no there is no dissident right, alt right, right right wing without Trump. And that's because
Starting point is 02:51:34 he was the individual selected by the high culture to bring these ideas back into popular consciousness and to prepare the ground for whatever comes after him. So that's the point I wanted to make kind of summarizing what Yaqui's talking about here. 2. Within the stratum, there is a constant struggle between tradition and innovation.
Starting point is 02:51:58 The strong vital part naturally represents the new forward development affirming the next age. It is the function of tradition to assure continuity. Tradition is the memory of a super personal soul. It must see that the same creative spirit of the grand past is, present at each innovation. The crisis of rationalism places the same frightful strain on the higher stratum that it does on the entire organism. The step forward, democracy, is affirmative in the last analysis because it is an historical necessity in the life of a culture, as we know from history. But it is a difficult step for men to take who have given their lives to
Starting point is 02:52:44 construction and creation for to mobilize the masses is to destroy. The step from culture to civilization is a fall. It is the onset of senility. For this reason, leaders whose center of gravity was on the side of culture resisted the revolution of democracy with all their power. Burke, Goethe, Hegel, Schopenauer, Metternich, Wellington, Carlisle, Nietzsche. The culture-bearing Stratum articulated into creators and appreciators is invisible as such. It corresponds to no economic class, no social class, nobility, no aristocracy, no occupation. Its members are not all public figures by any means, but by its existence, the Stratum actualizes a high culture on this earth.
Starting point is 02:53:38 If a process had existed by which members of the stratum could be all selected, the extra-European forces would probably have exterminated it in an attempt to destroy the West. The attempt would not have succeeded, for this stratum is produced by the culture, and after a long period of chaos, a generation or two, depending on circumstances, this cultural organ would have been again present, including in its numbers descendants of the invaders who would also succumb to the idea. The possibilities in this direction will be more thoroughly examined later. So what Yaqui is outlining in those two paragraphs is basically the 19th century.
Starting point is 02:54:22 A lot of people, a lot of people, you know, radical or not radical, perennialists, radical traditionalists, I guess is the right way of saying it. The sort of return crowd, the people who, one of the biggest questions that they ask, ask is, where did everything go wrong? Was it 1945? Was it, you know, earlier than that? Was it the invention of Christianity? Was it learning how to write? And I will give everyone a date so that we can resolve this question once and for all. Everything went wrong in the 19th century. It went wrong in the 19th century. Before the 19th century, more or less everything had a continuity with with itself. And it was more or less understood that everything had a continuity, right?
Starting point is 02:55:09 You see murmurings of discontent before that, but these are fairly easily squashed, like the Cathars, the Hussites, the various Christian heresies, which really, if you look at them, they were just incest, earth mother, sex cults that people got really, really, really violent about. The Protestants are different. That's different. That was more or less the reassertion of a previous culture idea, which already existed. And I'm not going to get into that now.
Starting point is 02:55:41 But the point of this is that everything went wrong in the 19th century. The 19th century is the external expression of the consequences of the Enlightenment, which was the immediately preceding movement. The Enlightenment, as it's called, was basically the onset of mobilizing the masses of this idea of mass democracy of the common man as it's called being the fundamental focus of society because what what doing this does is destroy it's just like it's just like you know here's a metaphor here's a metaphor so that you know you in the audience can understand what i'm kind of referring to um pete you ever build legos in your
Starting point is 02:56:27 life. Do you ever have Legos when you were a kid? Absolutely. Okay, yeah. And I'm sure many of the audience members had, like, I'm pretty sure all of them did. So let's say you're building, you're, you're just building something, right? You're either following the instructions on a Lego set or you're building it yourself, right? In order to build something else, in order to build another, let's say you're building a castle with your Legos. Well, in order to tear down that castle and to build, say, a spaceship. well you need to tear down that castle you can't you don't have the bricks available to build that spaceship if you're letting them sit over there in that castle right um and let's just assume you can't just go out and buy another Lego set for whatever reason so you have to tear down that castle you have to destroy it you have to destroy it in order to have the bricks back into their fundamental aspects in order to rebuild themselves into something else this is the process of what's called creative destruction right and that's what the 19th century was. The 19th century was the unleashing of these democratic mass common ideals,
Starting point is 02:57:33 the death of culture, the pedestrianization of culture, romanticism and all of that other stuff, was a means of bringing culture back down, making it inaccessible, making it largely unknown. The 20th century was the consequence of those processes, because what happens when you do that is you have the deadliest century, probably in human history, at least that we know of, And so in the 21st, in the 21st century, we're kind of looking back on the consequences of that and we're thinking, okay, how do we rebuild this? This is actually why it's such an exciting time to be alive and everyone and everyone listening should consider themselves blessed to be alive during this time, is that this is, as much as you may think that Western civilization is collapsing, it's honest last legs, the barbarians are at the gates, da-da-da-da-da, stop listening to Tucker Carlson. it's, it's, um, Tucker Carlson is collapsed porn. Um, and, and I would recommend for the sanity of the audience, just not to listen to it on a regular basis. Believe it or not, we're actually,
Starting point is 02:58:36 I'm actually optimistic. I'm more optimistic about the future of the West than I've ever been because you're seeing this revival. You're seeing this, this, this, this reinterpretation of culture, not just in, in the, in the disciplines of previous eras that directed it, but in and of itself. People are finally understanding the fundamental truth of all culture, especially Western culture. And the consequences of this, and here's the thing, as he was talking about, innovation and tradition, we are the forces of innovation, believe it or not. Like we are the people who are right now, because things have degraded to such a point, it's an innovation to restore culture. It is something new to bring back culture. The forces of tradition in the sense of the
Starting point is 02:59:20 conservatives are actually the wokes, the progressives, the libtards, the whatever the heck you want to call them, because they're holding on to this idea of mass democracy, of, of degradation, of lack of culture, of pure objectivity, of no shape or form, that sort of feminine aspect. And so what makes it so important for us to continue doing the work that we're doing is that we need to understand how we're going to tear down that castle, this crumbling castle, that is the ideas of mass democracy, of cutting off your dick, of giving your kids, all sorts of medications, we need to understand how we're going to tear that down and what parts of that we're going to use to rebuild Western high culture. So that's the point he's driving towards.
Starting point is 03:00:06 In a political age, it is natural that the best brains go into politics and war. Those who are equal to renunciation and sacrifice to the heroes of this realm. War politics is preeminently the field of heroism, and the sacrifices in this realm are never in vain from the cultural standpoint, for the war itself is an expression of culture. Considered from the rationalistic standpoint, it is stupid to devote one's life to an idea, any idea whatever. But once again, life, with its organic reality, does not obey rationalism with its urge to mediocrity. Thus, the best are colds from every generation and impelled into the service of the culture. The noblest of all are heroes, or the heroes, who die for an idea, but everyone cannot be a hero, and the others live
Starting point is 03:00:57 for an idea. An invariable characteristic of this level is its spiritual sensitivity, which brings it more impressions than the others receive. This is coupled with more complex internal possibilities, which order the volume of impressions. It can feel the new spirit of the age before it is articulate before it is articulate before it triumphs. This also describes all great men, and one reason so many perish violently is that the promulgated things which were ahead of their time. These men lived in a world more real than that of the realistic people, and these same realists are outraged and burn the Savonorella whom they would follow unquestioningly a generation
Starting point is 03:01:45 or two later. This vital plane is only a psychic cultural unity during the long centuries of the culture, but with the coming of the late civilization, mid-20th century, the dominant idea of the entire culture is political. Napoleon's politics's destiny is even more true now than when he said it. The two ideas of democracy and authority stand opposed, and only one of them belongs to the future. Only authority represents a step forward, and thus the strongest, most vital, creative elements of the culture-bearing stratum are found in the service of the resurgence of authority. It has become political-cultural. And this is a recapitulation of the earlier points, the earlier points we made.
Starting point is 03:02:35 And Yaqui is describing this idea as it's like, you know, the 20th century is the consequence of creative destruction. Well, now we stand opposed to creative destruction, all right, that we've had enough destruction. We've had enough destroying the old ways of doing things. Now we need to bring culture back about again, right? And this is why what we do is so important is because without us, we are doing the service of the high culture. We have been basically conscripted whether we wanted to or not by the high culture in order to do this work. Right. And so because of this, if we don't do our work, if we don't oppose the left at all areas, if we don't oppose the old conservative reactionary regime of all men are hereby created equal, right? If we don't oppose that and say and bring about a sort of a resurgence of authority of not all men are created equal as the prime directive of the next age, then the culture dies, high culture dies, basically.
Starting point is 03:03:47 And so, and so this is what Yaqui is talking about. Like, he, this is not the first time something like this has happened. You know, during the Protestant Reformation, the greatest minds of that age, you know, we're working with either the Protestant reformers or with the Catholic Church and the counter-reformation. And he talks, he brings example of Savannah Rola. who was the, I don't know if it was Giovanni Savonarola, what's his name, but he was a, he was a, I don't know if Prophet was the right word to describe him, but he was a Dominican friar, right, from the area
Starting point is 03:04:27 of Ferreira in Italy, Giralomo Savonarola, or Jerome Savonarola. And he basically goes to Florence during the Renaissance era and basically kind of takes over and establishes a sort of John Calvin radical Christian state. But this was before the Reformation occurs, right? This was like, this was I think 10 or 20 years before the Reformation occurs. And he essentially, the Medici's, who were the Republican later turned noble family that ruled over Florence, had to flee the city because Savonarola basically gets the city into this religious frenzy, right? And in many ways, this is like right at the end of the, of the Renaissance. So he does, his famous thing is, I don't know if you've ever heard the, the phrase bonfire of the vanities. Yes.
Starting point is 03:05:20 That comes from him because what this was was basically a burning of all of this religious art, these religious icons, this beautiful Renaissance art of all these Christian saints and all that. It's the burning of that. And you see similar things with the sort of iconoclasm brought about by many Protestant movements later. The problem was is that Savanarro, was a little bit too early he was a little bit too early and so he kind of took it too far too fast right and so when he took it too far too fast basically um the pope excommunicated him and the people of florence were really fucking worried because they didn't you know they didn't want their souls so they basically they put him by the trial by fire which i think is also a um uh also comes from him
Starting point is 03:06:08 um he willingly said you know i will walk through this fire and if i walk through this fire unscathed god has protected me and i am supposed to bring about this this new era of christianity and if the flames take me then you know then i was false or something like that and he dies he dies walking through this fire um but the thing and that ends that ends savonarola's sort of reign in in florence and the Medici's come back and everything's back to normal. But that doesn't end the spirit. That doesn't end the consciousness of what was brewing. Savonarola was one of, you count how many reformers.
Starting point is 03:06:50 You know, you've got Jan Hus in Bohemia about a century prior. You've got John Wycliffe a little bit earlier than Jan Hus. You've got the Cathars, like I say. So Savonarola is kind of like the final expression of a of a, of a heresy against the Catholic Church of an attempt at reforming the Christian faith outside of the Catholic Church or vis-a-vis the Catholic Church before Martin Luther, who was the one everyone knows, was the guy who actually started the Reformation. But, you know, during the period of the Reformation, everyone was a Savonarola. Luther himself was considered a Savonarola, as was
Starting point is 03:07:30 John Calvin, Meno, who the Mennonites come from, Jacobus, Arminius, all of these other reforming figures were basically cult leaders in the way that Savonarola was a cult leader. And so what, you know, this is, this is what Yaki is referring to. Savonarola was just a precursor. He was ahead of his time. Had he been born or done his thing 20 years later, there would probably be a form of Christianity called Savanarola in Christianity or something like that or Florentine Christianity. But the problem was is he was too early. And this is what Yaki talks about with the high culture. You can look at what we're talking about. right now. I don't think we're early. I think we're right on schedule. But, you know, take people like
Starting point is 03:08:11 Sam Francis, like Yaqui, like Oswald Spengler, like other people, they are ahead of their time. They are ahead of their time and they're outlining the next thing and they are killed because they exist in the world of 50 to 100 years in the future, right? We're just kind of picking up what they predicted 50 years ago and we're on schedule, right? And so this is kind of what I'm driving towards with point is that, you know, all of the great visionaries, all of the great men, you know, Napoleon when he says politics is destiny, right? Napoleon is the entire story of the Faustian man wrapped up into one individual. And that, that's kind of what Yaqui is referring to here, is that it's like, is like all of the visionaries, all of the great men can see the next age and the age
Starting point is 03:08:59 after that and all this other stuff in ways that most people, even smart people can't, right? the poets are usually the first one to see it, right? But that's the whole point with all this thing, is this like, is like culture goes through phases and we are coming upon the age that people like Sam Francis, like Yaki, like Willis Cardo, like, you know, Alan de Ben Wally, all these other earlier, you know, thinkers predicted. And so, and so this is why reading Yaki is so important because it gives you an idea as to what is coming, not so much in the next 100 years, probably in the next 50 years,
Starting point is 03:09:39 maybe even earlier, within our lifetimes. Since the culture-bearing stratum has its highest importance in an age like the present one, when quality reasserts itself against quantity, it must be defined now as precisely as possible. The notion of mere prominence must be disassociated strongly from the idea of belonging to this stratum, Wagner, Ibsen, Cromwell, none of whom were prominent until middle life were nonetheless in this plane of life and thought in their previous years. The notion of prominence is related to the idea of the culture-bearing stradum in this way. Every man who is prominent in any field and who also has inner gifts of vision,
Starting point is 03:10:24 appreciation, or creativeness naturally belongs to this stratum. Prominence, however, may be the results of accident of birth or fortune, and Europeans have seen two periods in recent history after the first two world wars, when nearly all the ruling politicians in Europe were simply common men thrown up by chance and the distorted life of the higher organism. The culture-bearing stratum has its highest importance now, rather than in previous centuries, because it is a relatively tinier minority. The vast increase of numbers in Europe, it tripled in population in the 19th century, did not increase the numbers of this stratum, nor of higher natures generally.
Starting point is 03:11:08 This stratum was as numerous in the time of the Crusades as it is now. It is simply the way of culture to choose minorities for its expression. Multiplication of population is downwards. The tension between quantity and quality grows greater with the increase of numbers, and the culture-bearing stratum acquires a, a mathematically higher significance. The tension can be suggested in figures. There are not more than 250,000 souls in Europe who constitute by their potentialities,
Starting point is 03:11:44 their imperative, their gifts, their existence, the culture-bearing Stratum of the West. Their geopolitical distribution has never been entirely uniform. In that nation which the culture chose for the expression of the spirit of the age, as it chose Spain for the expression of ultramontanism in the 16th and 17th centuries, France for the Rococo in the 18th century, or England for capitalism in the 19th, there was always a higher proportion of the culturally significant than in countries which were not playing the leading cultural role. This fact was known to the extra-European forces in their attempt to destroy the Western civilization after the Second World War and was utilized as far as it could be within the limits of expediency.
Starting point is 03:12:34 The real purpose behind the mass hangings, mass looting, and mass starvation was to destroy the few by destroying the many. So this is extremely important, and this is extremely important to think about, right? Yaki gives us a number. 250,000 people. The culture-bearing stratum is never more than about 250,000 people in all times, in all ages. I don't know what the population of the earth was in
Starting point is 03:13:03 1948 when he wrote this. It had probably just broken a billion. We currently have 7 billion people on this earth, probably more, right? And yet that number has remained unchanged, right? And so this is what, honestly, there's probably more than 250,000 people who generally consider themselves within the dissident right.
Starting point is 03:13:23 I mean, this is something I have to tell people in the audience, right? Like if you are one of, if you believe yourself to be one of these 250,000 people, be honest with yourself. You know, if you, just by virtue of your internal feeling, your understanding, your, your, the combination of your intellect, your physical talents, your charm, all this other stuff, right? It's actually now, it's easier than in any other age.
Starting point is 03:13:47 It is easier to become a significant, important individual. You could go out and probably make millions of dollars just with a basic understanding of the stock market. and your um uh and your individual internal feelings right like like like this is one of the things i think uh nietzsche says um he says one of the best things about democracy right or one of the only good things about democracy i suppose one of the redeeming factors of democracy is that it makes the rise of the great man all the easier because just just by virtue of your competition if you have a functional intellect and a and a integrity
Starting point is 03:14:28 a, a willingness, a desire to do things the way things are supposed to be done, this is easier than any other age, right? And yes, as Yaki says, you know, he says, look, like as quantity increases, the battle becomes even greater, right? You know, as more and more and more and more and more people get born on this earth, right? The culture bearing straight and becomes more and more and more of a minority, right? The stakes become higher. And eventually, just like boiling something in a pot, it will reach a breaking point. It will reach a point where you need to, the way things are are completely unsustainable and you will have some sort of cataclysm, whether it be a natural disaster or a war or something similar. Finally, before we continue, in that last part of the
Starting point is 03:15:14 paragraph, Yaqui describes how the culture-bearing stratum for different ages has favored different places. Yes, he is completely correct. The distribution of people on the planet who are a part of this culture-bearing stratum is never uniform, right? They're usually concentrated in one place or another place. He talks about Spain with ultramontanism, which is the idea that the Pope is the end point of all existence in a nutshell, within the 16th and 17th centuries, right? But Spain lost its cultural prominence with the rise of France, specifically with the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1628, which marked the end of Spain as the dominant power and the sort of beginning of France's rise. then you have the Rococo dynastic politics
Starting point is 03:15:57 Louis the 13th sort of the three musketeers idea of what you could then see as the what you could then see transfer into the 18th century with with the Bourbon family with the seven years war with the enlightenment with the kind of peak the peak of this absolutism right the absolutism then transitions
Starting point is 03:16:23 into the mass democracy brought about by Napoleon basically kicking down the gates and then by England capitalizing on Napoleon's idea, no pun intended, capitalizing on Napoleon's ideas and then becoming the dominant power of the 19th century and of mass democracy, which it then exports worldwide. However, you know, the 20th century, which Yaqui does not outline, the highest, the nation in which the culture-bearing stratum was concentrated in the 20th century was Germany. Germany was where it was concentrated and Italy to a lesser extent
Starting point is 03:16:56 because both of those nations were born in the 19th century as the opposition to England, both Italy and Germany. They didn't exist as their current form until the 19th century. And now that the culture bearing stratum in the 21st century, it's definitely not in Germany anymore
Starting point is 03:17:15 and it's definitely not in Italy anymore. There's only one place where the culture bearing stratum is left. And I think, you know, this is kind of the whole point of my account. The culture bearing stratum is currently concentrated within America. America is the geographical concentration of when, of where, rather, the people who want to uphold the West, the people who want to uphold culture, who want to return it, bring it back about. This is the last place where, compared to the rest of the earth, where they are being born now. And this is why the culture has selected America as the stage, for the next act, for the act of Caesar for the, for the Faustian Western culture.
Starting point is 03:17:58 And that's just something I wanted to emphasize. The last sentence in the previous paragraph, it clearly says that the reason for the basically the implementation of, I guess people would say, well, the Morgenthau plan really wasn't implemented, but I mean, we saw it clearly. the reason to kill and to basically destroy these people and put them on 500 calorie a day diets was to basically try to get rid of anyone who was a part of the culture-bearing stratum in Europe. Is that correct? It is completely correct.
Starting point is 03:18:38 In addition, this is why you see things like Operation Paperclip. If they couldn't kill the culture-bearing stratum in Europe, they would incentivize them, to leave Europe, basically. And this was all intended by the high culture, which is really just the way God manifests his will through historical processes. Like, this was how the high culture was to be shifted, or the focus of the culture-bearing stratum
Starting point is 03:19:07 was to be shifted to America. And keep in mind, you know, it's not, the culture-bearing stratum is not a purely genetic thing. It, you know, many of the people actually who were the kids, of the thousands of of lower level Nazis brought over to the United States by the Operation Paperclip and other another similar programs they all work for the regime now
Starting point is 03:19:33 they in many ways they are the regime in many ways they are the forces of tradition of promoting the things we have now they're not the sole group but they're one of the groups and so yes as as Yaqui outlines the real purpose behind the mass hangings mass looting and mass starvation was to destroy the few by destroying the many. And they're trying to do the same thing in America right now, completely unsuccessfully, because the federal government's authority is just falling apart by the day. Individual parts of the federal government, the different states are asserting more and more and more and more sovereignty, and they're more and more becoming in league with each other. You can see this, I've talked about this in my second
Starting point is 03:20:14 American Civil War articles, but, you know, just off the cuff, this is in like the Second Amendment League of all these states that signed agreements to uphold the Second Amendment, the 13 states that petition the Supreme Court to review the election, right? You are very much seeing dividing lines being drawn along the culture-bearing strata within the United States, and the forces of tradition are team blue. The forces of innovation are Team Red, right? And this is why Team Red will inevitably triumph, because innovation always beats tradition, because it is simply the young, new idea of the next age. That must become the tradition after it is implemented.
Starting point is 03:20:56 Exactly. The same fate will befall us. The same fate will befall our children. We will become the previous age. We will become the tradition, the conservatives, and we will be unseeded by the next idea, right? add perpetual until the high culture dies and a new one is born, even with the process of a high culture dying and a new one being born. So that's the whole way to think about this. And that's that shouldn't be discouraging. This gives you your role. This tells you what you're supposed to do.
Starting point is 03:21:27 The articulation of the culture has three aspects. The idea itself, the transmitting stratum, those to whom it is transmitted. The latter comprise the vast numbers of human beings who possess any refinement whatever, who maintain a certain standard of honor or morality, who take care of their property, who have self-respect and respect the rights of others, who aspire to improve themselves in their situation instead of pulling down those who have enriched their inner life and raised themselves in the world. They are the body of the culture vis-à-vis, the culture-bearing stratum as its brain and the idea as its soul. In each person who belongs to this numerically large group, there is a quantum of ambition and appreciation towards the creations of culture.
Starting point is 03:22:17 They furnish the instruments by which creators can carry out their work. By this means they give significance to their own lives, a significance which the underworld would not understand. The role of the, how do you pronounce that? Is that mesinos? The role of a mesinos is not the highest, but it is of cultural value. Who knows whether we have, would have, who knows whether we would have Wagner's greatest works, but for Ludwig the second?
Starting point is 03:22:48 When we read the results of the great battle, do we always realize that it was not simply a chess game between two captains, but that hundreds of firm officers and thousands of obedient men died to write this line in history to make this day and date forever remembered? And when a threatened sack of society is put down by the police and army, the captain casualties on the side of order, thus give by their deaths a high significance to their lives also. Not everyone can play a great role, but the right to give meaning to his life cannot be taken from a man. I want to say something real quick. I know we're going a bit long, but that last sentence, not everyone can play a great role, but the right to give meaning to his life
Starting point is 03:23:33 cannot be taken from a man. This is like, this is not like, you know, morally, this is like metaphysically as if like like no one can take away your ability to give meaning to your own life whether this means whether this means getting shot and killed by a police officer over a principled stand or dying from a mob from from refusing to stand down to a mob all of this other stuff that that right that right can never be taken away from you by anyone except for yourself right when you cow to the authorities you know when you when you do all this other stuff, right? Perhaps you're making a decision to, you know, there is, there is a line to draw between,
Starting point is 03:24:17 you know, not dying on a stupid hill and making a stand, but you'll know when your moment to make the decision is everyone knows it inherently. Whether you recognize it is up to you. And yeah, that's, that's, you know, this is to my earlier point. He talks about Messinas, the appreciators, the culture bearing stratum divided into divide it into creators and appreciators. The appreciators are, as I said earlier, the rich people, those who are materially prosperous, like Ludwig II, like Macynos, who patronized culture.
Starting point is 03:24:52 And culture, not just artists, not just musicians, not just all this other stuff, but great generals, great organizers, you know, great economists who ensure that their society kept functioning properly, right? great technicians to create amazing technological innovations. That's what the role is. It's like you are a part of the high culture. And anyone really, anyone who's just a generally good and upstanding person who looks to improve their life without stepping on anyone else unnecessarily, who looks to take care
Starting point is 03:25:27 of that which they own, who looks to improve the lives of those around them, that's also a part of the culture bearing stratum. You know, he talks about the soldiers. He talks about the police officers. I'm not talking about those corrupt gangsters that they currently have in uniform now to extort citizens. I'm talking about the small town police officer who arrests an ATF agent because he's harassing someone who lives in his community. These are all part of the culture-bearing stratum. It is those who put something higher than their own life and well-being.
Starting point is 03:25:57 You're going to move on. And don't worry about time. But beneath all this is the stratum totally incapable of cultural attainment. even the most modest, the mob, canai, pavl, underworld, profanum vulgis, the common man of the American cult. These preside at every terror, listen wishfully to every Bolshevik agitator, secrete venom at the sight of any manifestation of culture or superiority. This stratum exists at all stages of every culture as the Peasants Wars, the Jacari, Watt Tyler, Jack Cade, John Ball, Thomas Munster, The Jacobins, the communards, the Spanish militiamen, the mob in the square in Milan, are there to show. As soon as a creative man makes his resolve and proceeds with his work, somewhere else in a dark, envious soul, there rises a crooked determination to stop him, to smash the work.
Starting point is 03:26:56 In his later years, the nihilist Tolstoy gave perfect expression to this basic fact with his formula that not even one stone should be on top. top of another. The slogan of the Bolshevik in 1918 was also illuminating. Destroy everything. In our age, this underworld is in the possession of the class warriors, the rear guard of rationalism. It is thus working from the larger political viewpoint solely for the extra European forces. Previous rebellions of this stratum were all doomed because of the unity of the culture, the pristine vigor of the creative impulses, and the lack of external. danger of such crushing proportions as exists in this age. Its history is not yet over with.
Starting point is 03:27:43 Asia has used for this stratum and plans for it. This is basically, he's outlining the revolts of the common man, which has existed in every single age. He gives a whole bunch of examples. Talks about the mob, Kanai, Pobel, underworld. These are various, various historical examples. examples he uses to describe this same concept. You know, the peasants wars in, I believe Germany, yeah, the peasants wars. This was a revolt during the, during the Protestant Reformation, where the peasants in Germany believed, oh, fuck the nobles, we're going to, we're going to overthrow them all with, because God says so. And even, even, you know, even Martin Luther himself wrote something saying like, yeah, these peasants are crazy. You have free reign to slaughter all of them, right? Watt Tyler, Jack Cade, and John Ball
Starting point is 03:28:38 were all peasant rabble-rousers in England who basically whipped the peasants up into a frenzy to try to overthrow the English crown, the English government entirely. You have the levelers who are a similar Christian heresy that existed within England who sought to make... They were called the levelers because they sought to make everything equal. They're like, you know, there's no such thing as,
Starting point is 03:29:06 nobility. Nothing can exist outside of how God is ordained. We're all equal in the eyes of God. Thomas Munzer was a theologian, I think, leader of the German peasants during the peasants wars. Everyone knows who the Jacobins were. The communards were those who set up the commune of Paris during the, immediately after the Franco-Prussian War, the Spanish militiamen of the CNTFA and other anarchist groups that fought during the Spanish Civil War and the mob in the square in Milan, he's referencing those who, those who were there to jeer at Mussolini as he was killed, you know, those who weren't, those who were too cowardly to jeer at him while he was alive, because those, the ones who jeered at him while they, while he was alive were
Starting point is 03:29:50 those who were principled, were those who stood for something. But no, the mob in the square in Milan, they were completely fine to accept any humiliation from Mussolini. And now that Mussolini is dead, oh, look at us. We're going to, we're going to jeer at him. Look at how manly we are, we sure showed him. And that's the thing. This is what he's talking about. He's talking about how there's this inherent desire within the underworld, within the
Starting point is 03:30:15 masses, to tear down everything. And it is a necessary part of any high culture to unleash that desire to tear things down so things can be rebuilt. But at the current juncture we are at, the extra European forces, those who exist outside of the high culture,
Starting point is 03:30:31 who seek to bring down the high culture, right? Asia. as the example. This is why I support neither China nor Russia. They are both civilizational enemies because simply if we look at the Karl Schmidt friend enemy distinction, they are outside of my civilization, therefore they are enemies, right? I have no ill will towards them. However, I do not support them. And so the extra European forces are attempting to do what they attempted to do in 1945, which is destroy the Faustian high culture, the culture bearing stratum, by destabilizing the one place where it exists being
Starting point is 03:31:07 the United States. That's why they're flooding it with immigrants. They are distorting the culture, corrupting the children, et cetera, because by doing this, they are able to destroy the few by destroying the many. And they're getting diminishing rates of return on this.
Starting point is 03:31:23 More and more people across the United States are listening to shows like this, are reading books, are reading Yaqui, all at once it seems. It's amazing how in the past three, four years, you can now talk to a generally intelligent person mentioned someone like evela or spangler and he'll odds are he'll actually know it i had a conversation with a captain in the iowa national guard about julius evela
Starting point is 03:31:45 which was interesting to say the least but but this is the point like like culture you know history is is is the movement of extreme action with long lulls to extreme action to another long lull right You know, even Lenin, Lenin, who was a part of the culture-bearing stratum, said there are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen. And you can always sense that they're coming because things start accelerating.
Starting point is 03:32:16 Things start getting faster. You can start to see this upswing in cultural vitality, in standing for principles and all this other stuff, until it eventually reaches the culmination in some great cataclysm. And then the cataclysm comes to an end, and it's a falling action back into a lull with the new order. You know, this is, this is Hegelian dialectics, this is the, the hero's journey, this is all this stuff.
Starting point is 03:32:39 It is a cyclical process. And that's what's happening now. And that's what this chapter, what Yaki outlines and why reading Yaki is so important. Because America will be, I'm saying this is God's honest truth. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. America will be where the future is decided. It is the stage where everyone relevant is living now. Everyone relevant is attempting to control America, one way or another, because America is the means by which history will fulfill itself in the current age.
Starting point is 03:33:14 In the next age, I don't know, but in the current age, it is here. Yeah, we also see it amongst people that we know personally who are doing everything they can to educate themselves, not only in political. political theory, but learning more about art, learning more about history. It just, it seems like people, even if they can't articulate this, even if they've never read this before, even if they've never been able to put this together in their own minds, they're doing it instinctively. And that points to something beyond the material. Yeah, that's completely true. And you're going to, you're going to see this it's the best way to say that you're going to see this kind of infect all modes of thought
Starting point is 03:34:05 like all modes of thought will conform to this new idea it will not be protestantism goes one way catholicism goes another way da da da da da da it will be catholicism of the old age protestantism of the old age and both of them of the new age right that's how this will work and as it has been for every other culture there will be some sort of caesar whether he comes as a conquering military hero or as a captain of industry or both or as a politician, perhaps Trump, perhaps he will come in much the same way Trump did. I don't think Trump is him. I think Trump is more of a, is a good, someone described him once to me as a crassus wearing Caesar's cloak. I think that's a, that's a good metaphor. But I think Trump is just a
Starting point is 03:34:52 premonition of things to come. Even if, even if, say, Trump is just a man of the moment. He's just the, the brothers Grakis or the or the or the Sola or the Marius or whomever else whatever other metaphor you want to draw he is the he is the murmuring
Starting point is 03:35:13 he's the trailer I guess you could say he's the precursor to the main event that is coming I believe within our lifetimes give your plugs and we'll end it yeah so you can read my substack on Paul Fahrenheit dot substack.com.
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Starting point is 03:35:51 I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cignon-A-S show. It's been a while since we've done this. you doing, Paul. I'm doing very well, Mr. Pete. How are you? I am doing very well. So it's really odd. I think you probably saw the person on Twitter who was like, hey, wouldn't it be great if you and Paul did another Yaqui reading? And it had just so happened like maybe a few hours before that we had scheduled this. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. It's like a psychic message gets sent out and everyone knows. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:36:28 All right. Let me share a screen on this. All right. So this is a section in part one. Is it in part one or is it in part two? It's in part one. It's in part one called The Nature of Politics. And I reread it this morning and I was just like, all right, yeah, this is, there's no better
Starting point is 03:36:51 time than now to read this. So as per normal, I'll just start reading and stop whenever. All right. So, Francis Parker-Yaki, this is the section on the nature of politics. First,
Starting point is 03:37:08 what is politics? That is politics as a fact. Politics is activity in relation to power. Politics is a domain of its own, the domain of power. Thus, it is not morality. It is not aesthetics.
Starting point is 03:37:27 It is not economics. Politics is a way of thinking, just as these others are. Each of these forms of thought isolates part of the totality of the world and claims it for its own. Morality distinguishes between good and evil, aesthetics between beautiful and ugly, economics between Udil and in Udle in its later purely trading phase. these are identical with profitable and unprofitable. The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy. These express for it the highest possible degree of connection
Starting point is 03:38:09 and the highest possible degree of separation. So you can see here, Yaki is using the Schmidian definition of politics. Carl Schmidt was very popular in the time. He was actually, Carl Schmidt was a contemporary of Yaki. actually also, I think Schmidt had a copy of Imperium in his library, and Schmidt had a, he was very selective of what he put in his library. It was the German edition, though. But a lot of people have blamed Yaki for plagiarizing Schmidt, in essence. He does not credit Schmidt, even though he is using Schmidt's theory. And anyone familiar knows he's using that theory. Willis Cardo once put
Starting point is 03:38:51 forward, or I think it was Willis Cardo, he's either that or Revolope. I was one of those dudes who were writing on Yaki. They put forward the fact that, oh, he was only plagiarizing Schmidt because he couldn't credit Schmidt in this day in any book you published whatsoever because that would be like, that would be like putting like Alex Jones or something as a credit. I'm trying to think of an equivalent political figure because I can't say Kevin McDonald because no one knows who he is outside of us. I can't say like, maybe the bell curve guy.
Starting point is 03:39:24 what was his name again? Charles Murray. Yeah, maybe Charles Murray. But like, basically Schmidt was persona non grata with anything that was publishing back in the time Yaki was writing this. So Yaki decided to lift the theory without crediting him. But that's essentially the frame Yaki is arguing from. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:39:42 I interviewed Paul Gottfried recently and he went right into Friend, Enemy. I mean, probably being the top Schmidian scholar in the world. it's a powerful frame for sure yeah all right political thought is as separate from these other forms of thought as they are from each other it can exist without them they without it the enemy can be good he can be beautiful he can be economically util business may business with him may be profitable but if his power activity converges on mine, he is my enemy. He is that one with whom existential conflicts are possible. But aesthetics, economics, morality are not concerned with existence, but only with
Starting point is 03:40:36 norms of activity and thinking within an assured existence. Yeah, he's basically making the point here that politics is destiny. I think that's even the title of one of his later sections. politics as destiny um but you know yeah this is this is kind of the schmidian sort of um understanding of things and that politics um you know politics and warfare being kind of synonymous politics is the means of continuing out existence and then all of these other things aesthetics economics morality at keterra all sort of follow from that assured existence as he's saying there so he's he's kind of he's kind of in in this worldview in the schmidian worldview that yaki's
Starting point is 03:41:17 working with he's kind of writing this whole thing essentially to say look politics is the first order assumption in other words it is a it is security um when the army when we were clearing a patrol base whenever we were clearing a area to set up a patrol base our first and we we would settle it down a patrol base is basically when you have an infantry platoon sitting in one area whenever it's it's kind of like it's a temporary base but like it's it's occupied for longer than a couple of hours and shorter than like 36 hours. And we conduct missions from it and things like that. But whenever we're setting it up and we're resting and all that,
Starting point is 03:41:54 we have these things called priorities of work. Priority work number one is security. We always make sure that there are a certain number of guns pointing downrange, including our machine guns, small arms and all that, to keep the base about as covered as you possibly can. And then there's stuff like weapons maintenance. and then things like food, like sleep. Sleep is the last priority.
Starting point is 03:42:19 It's needed, but not all the time. So this is kind of like, this is the same logic that Yaqui is working with just in a theoretical context. Security is ensuring that your existence is continued. If you are not secure, then your existence is not guaranteed to continue. And so you can't argue about things like economics, aesthetics, et cetera.
Starting point is 03:42:39 You know, so that's kind of the logic he's using with this. And I would almost say that the modern left, quote unquote, understands that politics is power, but the right defaults to aesthetics, economics, and morality, and makes that what's most important to them. And that's why they lose. You know, in a strange way, it's because we believe we're the side of truth. We think truth simply will never die. And however many of us get killed in the process. it doesn't matter, there will always be others who come after us.
Starting point is 03:43:14 And there is a sort of security in that. And to be honest, I don't even think that's necessarily wrong, right? It's just, you know, yeah, you're right. That's why the right kind of acts the way it does. It's because they're kind of assured that they are right as it are. But, you know, because we live in a fallen world, being wrong can win. Onward. While as a matter of psychological fact, the enemy is easily represented.
Starting point is 03:43:41 Senate is ugly, injurious, and evil. Nevertheless, this is subsidiary to politics and does not destroy the independence of political thinking and activity. Yeah, real quick, I don't mean to keep interrupting you and talking. I want you to get this. But this is a key thing. Politics, Yaki is saying this, politics is not ideology. Ideology is how you're making the other guy look, all right? Ideology may follow from politics, but ideology is really just, it's just cargo culting symbols.
Starting point is 03:44:11 is all it is. It's making your enemy shape into a symbol to fit an already agreed upon goal. Politics is figuring out the goal. The political disjunction concerned as it is with existence is the deepest of all disjunctions and thus has a tendency to seek every type of persuasion, compulsion, and justification in order to carry its activity forward. The extent to which this occurs, is in direct ratio to the purity of political thinking in the leaders. The more their outlooks contain a moral, economic, or other ways of thinking, the more they will use propaganda along such lines to further their political aims.
Starting point is 03:44:59 Yeah, that's the point I made earlier. Yep. It may even happen that they are not conscious that their activity is political. There's every indication that Cromwell regarded himself as a religionist and not as a politician. A variation was provided by the French Journal, which fanned the war spirits of its readers in 1870, with the exception that the... What is it? Boyus.
Starting point is 03:45:30 It's a nickname for French soldiers. Right. I think it's kind of like the hairy ones. Yeah, hairy ones. It's like the French version of Doe Boy. Yeah. So a variation was provided by the French Journal, which fanned the war spirit of its readers in 1870 with the expectation that the poyus would bring carloads of blonde women back from Prussia. On the other side, Japanese propaganda for the home populace during the Second World War accented almost entirely the existential, i.e. purely political nature of the struggle. Another may be ugly, evil, and injurious, and yet not be the enemy, or he may be good, beautiful, and useful, and yet be an enemy.
Starting point is 03:46:17 Friend and enemy are concrete realities. They are not figurative. They are unmixed with moral, aesthetic, or economic elements. They do not describe a private relationship of antipathy. Antipathy is no necessary part of the political disjunction of friend and enemy. Hatred is a private phenomenon. If politicians inoculate their populations with hatred against the enemy, it is only to give them a personal interest in the public struggle which they would otherwise not have.
Starting point is 03:46:54 That's really important. Yeah, it's like propaganda ideology. is meant to further drive in a nail that's already kind of guided. You know, it's like, it's like, you know, what is, what is Yaki talking about here? Yaki is talking about political disputes. What is political disputes? Mr. Pete, let's say someone hypothetically, you know, is trespassing on your land. You have a dispute with him because he is trespassing on your land.
Starting point is 03:47:23 That is a political dispute because he is, he is, what is it, he is threatening the continuation of your existence. the moment he ceases trespassing on your land your your political dispute with him has ended because he is no longer you know now legal dispute is another matter but i mean like in the in the purely political sense right it's it's someone it's someone who is standing by virtue of whether they're pursuing their best interests or not the whatever path they are pursuing results in a threatened in a threatening of the continuation of your existence. That's all that politics is. And this is what Yaki is arguing it from. These categories are even further simplified into friend and enemy. You are your friend. Whoever is fucking with you is your enemy. It's it's it's it's that simple. Between super personal organisms, there is no hatred, although there may be existential, existential struggles. The disjunct it the disjunction love hatred is not political and does not intersect at any point with the political one-of-friend enemy.
Starting point is 03:48:35 Alliance does not mean love any more than war means hate. Clear thinking in the realm of politics demands at the outset a strong power of disassociation of ideas. The world outlook of liberalism, here as always, completely emancipated from reality, said that the concept enemy described either an economic competitor or else an ideational opponent. But in economics, there are no enemies, but only competitors. In a world which was purely moralized, i.e., one in which only moral contrasts existed,
Starting point is 03:49:16 there could be no enemies, but only ideational opponents. liberalism strengthened by the unique long peace 1871 to 1914 pronounced politics to be adivistic, the grouping of friend-enemy to be retrograde. This, of course, belongs to politics as a branch of philosophy. In that realm, no misstatement is possible. No accumulation of facts can prove a theory wrong, for over these theories are supreme.
Starting point is 03:49:52 History is not the arbiter in matters of political outlook. Reason decides all, and everyone decides for himself what is reasonable. This is concerned, however, only with facts, and the only objection made here to such an outlook in the last analysis is that it is not factual. Yeah, this is a common thing, and this is something that, like, Schmidt and the Schmidians, those interested in power politics are more are more interested in I was listening recently to
Starting point is 03:50:26 Patrick Casey's recent show with I think his name is like was it like James Bronsky or something like that and he's talking about what he calls a scudiology which is I could excuttiology I could completely be making this up like but I don't really give a fuck
Starting point is 03:50:41 no offense intended but you know whatever and this is kind of what he's arguing is that it's like look all society all societies have this sort of power political process um you know power political processes isn't just entirely what is factual right you know liberalism as a system as a system this is no different it's just the thing is is that liberalism strength as a system is that it constantly keeps obfuscation around the um the activities of power political facts um whether that has benefits or it doesn't, I mean, the history will decide. But yeah, like, this is, you know,
Starting point is 03:51:22 politics is fact. Like, Mr. Pete, let's go back to our earlier example. Dude's trespassing on your land. Is it a fact that he is trespassing on your land? Yes. All right. Is it a fact that, that, you know, you will defend your land because it is your property and your right up to the most extreme level of escalation if possible. Yes. So, you know, you see him, you ask him to leave. He says he's not going to leave. Then he starts walking towards you briskly and reaching for something.
Starting point is 03:51:53 What are you going to do? Put them down. Exactly. You know, that's, that's, these are all facts. These are not like, you're not sitting there. None of this is like theories. You know, you don't sit there like coming up with ideas like, you know, oh, what's, what, what, what is motivating him to do this?
Starting point is 03:52:10 no this is entirely you're not thinking you're entirely in the moment when this is occurring it's like okay a foreigner here not supposed to be here i have you know i have tried the diplomatic approach i've tried to like a i've tried to show a force that is on a lower level right which is asking them to leave that's a display of force if that doesn't work you then go to the next highest display of force then there's the ultimate display of force which is you know the taking of a life these are this is what yaki is talking about it's just arraying of facts you can scale this up from a single dispute of someone trespassing on someone's land all the way up to basically two nations fighting an existential conflict with each other.
Starting point is 03:52:51 Enemy then does not mean competitor, nor does it mean opponent in general. Least of all does it describe a person whom one hates from feelings of antipathy. Latin possessed two words, hostess for the public enemy, enimachus for a private, private enemy. Our Western languages, unfortunately, do not make this important distinction. Greek, however, did possess it and had further a deep distinction between two types of wars, those against other Greeks and those against outsiders of the culture, barbarians. The former were Agons, and only the latter were true wars. And Agon was originally a contest for a prize at the public games, and the opponent
Starting point is 03:53:40 was the antagonist. This distinction has value for us because in comparison with wars in this age, intra-European wars of the preceding 800 years were agonal. As nationalistic politics assumed the ascendancy within the classical culture with the Peloponnesian wars, the distinction passed out of Greek usage. 17th and 18th century wars in West Europe
Starting point is 03:54:06 were in the nature of contests for a prize, The prize being a strip of territory, a throne, a title. The participants were dynasties, not peoples. The idea of destroying the opposing dynasty was not present, and only in the exceptional case was there even the possibility of such a thing happening. Enemy in the political sense means thus public enemy. It is unlimited, and it is thus distinguished from private enmity. The distinction public-private can only arise when there is a super-personal unit present.
Starting point is 03:54:45 When there is, it determines who is friend and enemy, and thus no private person can make such a determination. He may hate those who oppose him or who are distasteful to him or who compete with him, but he may not treat them as enemies in the unlimited sense. So I'm going to make one small, you know, disagreement with Yaqui here. He's saying that, he's saying that wars throughout most of European history were generally agonic and not, you know, not existential. I agree except for two instances. When Cromwell was fighting in the English Civil War, that was, you know, that was very much religiously motivated. He was not fighting an egonic enemy. And I also believe that the 30 years war kind of just kind of just devolved into that. It got to the point where no one really knew why they were fighting anymore, but there were 100% exterminations going on in the 30 years war. And what differentiates those two wars from other wars and also makes them very similar to the wars of the 20th century that Yaqui will talk about later is that they were primarily religiously motivated wars. they were wars in which theology
Starting point is 03:56:05 because theology is the one thing that, you know, is theology is one of those things that I think even more so than culture that can, although I'm kind of talking out of my ass here once we get into this point because I'm not sure where this sits, but this is my, like,
Starting point is 03:56:20 Yaki is correct generally. Like, you know, in the 18th century, yeah, most wars, you know, the 18th century was actually kind of a reprieve from what the, from what the 17th century was, the 17th century was like fucking terrible. Probably the worst century to be alive in generally. But anyway, go ahead, Pete.
Starting point is 03:56:44 The lack of two words to distinguish public and private enemy also has contributed confusion in the interpretation of the well-known biblical passage, Matthew 544, and Luke 627, Love Your Enemies. The Greek and Latin versions used the words referring to a private enemy, and this is indeed to what the passage refers. It is obviously an adjuration to put aside hatred and malice, but there is no necessity whatever that one hate the public enemy. Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Starting point is 03:57:27 The biblical passage does not adjure one to love the public enemy, and during the wars against Saracen and Turk, no pope, saint, or philosopher, so construed it. It certainly does not counsel treason out of love for the public enemy. Yeah, like, before we go on to part two of this section, Pete, like, you know, I'm going to keep, this is going to be the metaphor we're going to use throughout the show, all right? You know, you see a stranger on your land that you know nothing. about do you hate him no i mean it's not that's not the the emotion that comes to mind no yeah it's like it's like what is this thing doing on my land i want him off my land or i want to i want a damn good reason as to why he's on my land you know and like that's that's like that's not hate hate hate hate in many ways is like a is like a confusion of emotions right like you know politics
Starting point is 03:58:22 is extremely rational it's like it's like you know person on my land escalation, escalation, escalation, okay, situation resolved one way or another. Then the emotions come flowing back because they're kind of put to the side. And that's kind of, once again, this is the point Yaki's talking about, right? Like, you know, the commandments of God within the Bible aren't like, aren't stop functioning as a human being in a area of limited space. It's like, you know, it's like keep, it's just general, it's general conducts of morality. It's not like make yourself a retard, you know. And then I look at this.
Starting point is 03:59:02 Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is not political. It always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. I mean, when you see the way that not only this state, but this, their apparatchiks in the press, you know, talk about a Putin or someone like that. The fact that they have to use words like evil is. It shows weakness. It shows that they're they're grasping for any way to get the people to support them because they know that they're on such shaky ground as it is that, you know, they worry that they won't have the support.
Starting point is 03:59:46 Yeah. No, that's totally true. And that's why I'm, when you think about politics as like the Kissinger's and the Bismar, and the Philip the seconds and all these great like grand geostrategic thinkers who are moving pieces around like their pieces on a chessboard, that is the that is the pinnacle of strength of a geopolitical entity when it's kind when it's literally just a game to them, you know, it's just like, oh, we've got an objective and it's totally dispersonal. That is when geopolitical entities are at their strongest and have their strongest leadership. But when it's like basically you have to you have to get the commissars to rile everyone up into a frenzy, that means they're not going to go and fight, you know, or they're not even really going to do anything if they're not riled up into that frenzy, you know? All right. Part two.
Starting point is 04:00:44 Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic, or other becomes at last political, if it's, creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies. The state as a political unit excludes by its nature opposition of such types as these. If, however, a disjunction occurs in the population of a state which is so deep and strong that it divides them into friends and enemies, it shows that the state, at least temporarily, does not exist in fact. It is no longer a political unit, since all political decisions are no longer concentrated in it. All states whatever keep a monopoly of political decision.
Starting point is 04:01:36 This is another way of saying they maintain inner peace. If some group or idea becomes so strong that it can affect a friend- enemy grouping, it is a political unit. And if forces are generated which the state cannot manage peaceably, it has disappeared for the time at least if the state has to resort to force this is in its
Starting point is 04:02:01 this in itself shows that there are two political units in other words two states instead of the one originally there so so that's actually I like this passage and I kind of want to want to focus on it for a little bit right you know this is this is extremely important
Starting point is 04:02:18 a state is the whatever you know he's defining a state here, it's the political unit that has the monopoly on force, which is the monopoly on politics and political decisions, i.e. they are the sovereign. They are where the buck stops.
Starting point is 04:02:35 And this is why taking over local governments is, or at least having an influence in local governments is extremely important because I've been posting maps like this recently where it's like the NATO Empire versus the United States within the United States.
Starting point is 04:02:50 And I'm like, look, y'all, like the federal government as we understand it is like an archipelago they have no real power you know in theory they can go anywhere um but like they have no real power outside of their general islands right that's where the quote unquote state exists right so really once you get a little bit too far outside of dc and suburbs you're kind of you're kind of somewhere else especially if you're out in the in the in the sticks um and so you know if if let's say if let's say two two families get into a dispute in some pissant county and the government federal government don't really even care about getting involved um then that state exists nowhere uh in that county that county is is divided between the two
Starting point is 04:03:34 states of those two families having the dispute hatfields and mccoy's and all that um and so that's why like your sort of modern understanding of a state is it's a really hard kline to disrupt but like the modern understanding of a state as like this thing that is always and everywhere is just is just is one of these is one of the worst innovations, I think that has occurred and is just generally not accurate. I think that this paragraph here, if more people on the right understood exactly what Yaqui's saying and internalize this, they'd get past the whole civic religion idea that the United States has to and always has to be one. Because if you take it. If you take this at face value, I mean, I don't even know that we have two political units. I think we have more than, more than two. And they're obviously at war with one another. And or, you know, the two that's most obvious is the regime, it comes down on anyone who disagrees with it or who they may refer to as semi-fascist. People who, they say that about people who question elections.
Starting point is 04:04:52 Not the 2016 election, of course, but the 2020 election. But, yeah, this is, we don't have a state. I don't think we've had a state for a very long time. We've had more than one. There's just a one that has, one right now is philosophical, and the other one is power, has power. Yeah. No, yeah, no, completely, completely correct.
Starting point is 04:05:20 and it's like the thing about political decisions right you know when i say acts of force people immediately think to the most extreme thing which is displays of violence and yes that is the implicit that is the implicit sort of understanding whenever you make an act of force hey whenever i whenever i like even even down to the level of if i if i tell my hypothetical child to do something um i don't have children but i'm using this example if i tell my child to do something like you know go outside and rake the leaves or whatever um the implicit threat of violence always exists if disobedience is um uh is displayed right and yeah there's nuance that exists with that but that's like that's you know this is this is the schmidian idea you know
Starting point is 04:06:10 it's it's it's all sovereignty and friend enemy you know so so it's like if the federal government sends you a letter saying you know hey get off your land or we're going to do this, and you just don't, and then nothing happens for like four years, then, you know, they just set you a piece of paper that had like some mean words on it, and, you know, you basically said, come and take it, and nothing happened. You know, that's, that's, that's what the Texans did when Mexico said, give us your cannons, you know, although in that instance, the Mexican, the Mexicans did come. All right.
Starting point is 04:06:46 This raises the question of the significance of internal politics. Within a state, we speak of social politics, judicial politics, religious politics, party politics, and the like. Obviously, they represent another meaning of the word, since they do not contain the possibility of a friend-enemy disjunction. They occur within a pacified unit. They can only be called secondary. The essence of the state is that within its realm, it excludes the possibility of friend-enemy grouping. Thus, conflicts occurring within a state are by their nature limited, whereas the truly political conflict is unlimited.
Starting point is 04:07:30 Every one of these internal limited struggles, of course, may become the focus of a true political disjunction if the idea opposing the state is strong enough and the leaders of the state have lost their sureness. If it does, again, the state is gone. an organism either follows its own law or it becomes ill. This is organic logic and governs all organisms, plant, animal, man, high culture. They are either themselves or they sicken and die. Not for them is the rational and logical view
Starting point is 04:08:10 which says that whatever can be cogently written down into a system, can then be foisted onto an organism. Rational thinking is merely one of the multifarious creations of organic life, and it cannot, being subsidiary, include the whole within its contemplation. It is limited and can only work in a certain way and on material which is adapted to such treatment. The organism is the whole, however, and does not yield its secret. to a method which it develops out of its own adaptive ability to cope with non-organic problems
Starting point is 04:08:53 it has to overcome. Secondary politics often can distort primary politics. For instance, the female politics of petty jealousy and personal hatred that was effective in the court of Louis the 15th was instrumental in devoting much of French political energy. to the less important struggle against Frederick and the little French political energy to the more important struggle against England and Canada and India and on the seas. Frederick the Great was not beloved by the Pompadour and France paid an empire to chastise him. When private hostility exerts such an effect on public decision, it is proper to speak of political distortion and of such a policy as a policy as a,
Starting point is 04:09:46 a distorted one. When an organism consults or is in the grip of any force outside of its own developmental law, its life is distorted. The relation between a private enmity and a public politics, it is circumstance to distort is the same as that between European petty statism and the Western civilization. The collectively suicidal game of nationalistic politics distorted the whole destiny of the West after 1900 to the advantage of the extra European forces. So towards the end there, he gets into kind of what the whole point of Imperium is, which is way too much to get into now. But I like that thing he's talking about with the court of Louis the 50.
Starting point is 04:10:32 I've been using this metaphor quite a lot recently, is like, you know, what we're living under right now, at least in the United States, is basically, you know, with Joe Biden in office, we're living under the court of Louis the 15th. Like, you know, the court of Louis the 14th. Louis the 14th was competent, right? You know, yeah, he was a tyrant, but he was a competent tyrant. Competent tyrants don't tend to get their heads chopped off. That's why Charles I got his head chopped off. Not only was he a tyrant, he was incompetent as fuck.
Starting point is 04:11:04 Also, Charles I totally deserved it. Fuck Charles the first. His son was okay, though. But Cromwell, Cromwell was a very competent tyrant. Cromwell was a tyrant to be completely sure, but he was, he was competent. As was Louis XIV. He invented this whole system to keep his French nobles basically perpetually doing these humiliation rituals as a part of being a noble that would totally keep them contained and underfoot. But the thing is, is that he left Louis the 14th-sized
Starting point is 04:11:33 shoes once he died, and Louis the 15th was not able to fill those shoes. And so they talk about this. the female politics of petty jealousy, right? You've got all sorts of examples throughout all sorts of empires whenever the women in the court. Because you have to understand, empires are actually very small things run in a very small ecosystem in the imperial capital. You know, Washington, D.C. is a very small ecosystem. Although, you know, it's arguable that D.C. is a colonial capital, but I digress. but you know in the ottoman empire they had something similar to after the death of suleiman
Starting point is 04:12:13 the magnificent you had uh who was like the last and like a culmination of like 10 good good sultans in a row like like from osmond the first like there were 10 like just great competent monarchs in a row and i think that's why the ottomans were able to were able to expand as fast as they did they just had they just got lucky 10 times in a row um and then after that it kind of started going the other way for them um you had what was called the sultanate of women and that was when the the sort of imperial harem just started controlling what was going on in the palace and they kind of collaborated with the eunuchs to kind of obfuscate state functions and all this other stuff and that's kind of what happened in louis the 15th and kind of what's happening now you all ever
Starting point is 04:12:55 noticed how many women we have in government it's funny it's crazy the more women you put in government the fucking crazier government gets who would have thunk it um and yeah that's totally correct. Like France made in this, and he's talking about the seven years war where France was fighting Prussia and England, you know, the rational decision would be for England to have committed more soldiers to French Canada instead of just like fighting this stupid continental war against this basically backwater kingdom that is Prussia. You know, yeah, yeah, everyone talks about now of how great Prussia was, but then pretty much with the backwater kingdom.
Starting point is 04:13:36 And everyone hated Frederick for some reason or another. And so they're like, you know, dedicated state resources. This is like going to the, going to Afghanistan to try to, you know, teach women how to read. That's the equivalent of what this is,
Starting point is 04:13:49 you know. But anyway, I don't want to talk for, for too, too long, but basically, yeah, it's like, if you want to think about politics, think about how you would play a game
Starting point is 04:13:59 of Civilization 5 or EU 4 or something like that. That's politics. You know, oh, it makes the most sense to attack this small border kingdom because they have very little army and no allies. I should take them and take their territory. Okay, this is rational. Then you do it and you get a desired outcome. That's politics. You know, oh, I probably shouldn't attack this kingdom because they've got an army twice the size.
Starting point is 04:14:23 As a matter of fact, I should ally them or ally one of their rivals, you know, in case they get the idea to attack me. That's what this is. That's all politics is. You know, rational thinking. Should I go into work today and say, fuck you to my boss? All right. Part three. The concrete nature of politics is shown by certain linguistic facts which appear in all Western languages.
Starting point is 04:14:51 Invariably, the concepts, ideas, and vocabulary of a political group are polemical, propagandistic. This is true throughout all higher history. The words state, class, king, society, all have their polemical content, and they have an entirely different meaning to partisans from what they have to opponents. Dictatorship, government of laws, proletariat, bourgeoisie, these words have no meaning other than their polemical one, and one does not know what they are intended to convey unless one knows also who is using them and against whom. During the Second World War, for instance, freedom and democracy were used as terms to describe all members of the coalition against Europe, with an entire disregard of semantics.
Starting point is 04:15:42 The word dictatorship was used by the extra-European coalition to describe not only Europe, but any country which refused to join their coalition. Similarly, the word fascist was used purely as a term of abuse, without any disarm. descriptive basis whatsoever, just as the word democracy was a word of praise but not of description. In the American press, for example, both during the 1914 war and the 1939 war, Russia was always described as a democracy. The House of Romanov and the Bolshevik regime were equally democratic. This was necessary to preserve the homogeneous picture of these wars, which this press had painted for its readers. The war was one of the war was one. of democracy against dictatorship. Europe was dictatorship. Ergo, anything fighting Europe
Starting point is 04:16:35 was democracy. In the same way, Machiavelli described any state that was not a monarchy as a republic, a polemical definition that has remained to this day. To Jack Cade, the word nobility was a term of damnation to those who put down his rebellion. It was everything good. In a legal treaties, the class warrior Carl Renner described rent paid by tenant to landlord as tribute. In the same way, Ortega I Gazette calls the resurgence of state authority of the ideas of order, hierarchy, and discipline a revolt of the masses. And to a real class warrior, any navvi is socially valuable, but an officer is a person is a person. parasite. During the period when liberalism ruled in the Western civilization and the state was reduced theoretically to the role of Knight Watchman, the very word politics changed its
Starting point is 04:17:41 fundamental meaning. From having described the power activities of the state, it now described the efforts of private individuals and their organizations to secure positions in government as a means of livelihood. In other words, politics came to mean party politics. Readers in 2050 will have difficulty in understanding these relationships for the age of the party of, for the age of parties will be forgotten then as the opium war is now. So I want to kind of talk about all this, right? You know, in the previous paragraph, he's talking about, you know, different.
Starting point is 04:18:24 different polemical descriptions of, you know, he's like, oh, democracy was used to describe the Romanov and the Bolsheviks. And this is getting into what we were talking about earlier, ideology as kind of like a means of reinforcing a poor political ideology. Ideology is always like, is like a cope, as it were, or a crutch to kind of paint over poor political decisions or political decisions that don't withstand a lot of scrutiny, right? You know, I'm sure if someone, if Teddy Roosevelt, for example, in like 1912 or like 1914, went to the America people and said, hey, let's go fight the Kaiser because if we go over to Europe and fight the Kaiser with all these fucking monarchies, then all of Europe will be in our pocket
Starting point is 04:19:13 and we'll just bankroll all of them and America will be the most powerful country in the world. You wouldn't have needed ideology for that. Like, like, that's just, and, you know, some may say that, and yeah, maybe. that would have been, you know, short-sighted, and people would have critiqued him for it, but that's what, that's what power politics is. But instead, it's like, you know, all this ideology about, you know, especially in the Second World War, you know, we're fighting to preserve freedom and democracy and all this other stuff. Whenever, whenever you're fighting for
Starting point is 04:19:43 something intangible, you know, the reason you're fighting doesn't really stand up to a lot of scrutiny. Like, you know, in the early odds, in the early, I really, I really, I really, I really, do think that the Bush administration would have had more success in Iraq if they had unironically said, yeah, we're just there for their oil and their, and other shit. Like, that's politics. That's a political decision, you know, and like I said, it's harsh, but it's just the way the world is, you know, like the strong, the way of the world is for the strong to oppress the weak. Um, it just is what it is. And he's, you know, and pretty much any, anyone who's trying to do anything with politics. If they're in a weak position, Jack Cade was the leader of an English peasant
Starting point is 04:20:27 revolt. Um, he, Watt Tyler was also another one. Um, you know, peasant revolts are by their nature weak. And so he had to use a bunch of ideology to keep the peasants fighting. Um, anyway, like, but moving down here to like the second paragraph as a part of that, like when, when liberalism ruled in Western civilization, the state was reduced to the night watchman. That base, what that basically meant is the, uh, competition of states as individuals, right? You know, the government is just like another job you can have. And maybe it has prestige or whatever, but it's like, you know, and to be honest, I don't want to say that that was anarchy, because actually one of the most orderly periods
Starting point is 04:21:10 in American history was when, was when pretty much everything just had no state and everyone was a state under themselves. And maybe there's something to go into that, but I don't think that can, I think that can only exist in very specific instances. um with with security being just so much assured by two oceans and you know the u.s navy and other things like that um but yeah like party politics is really just like the parties are the two states in the united states there is no u.s government there's like when even then there isn't even really like like like a two countries in the united states there's like you know this this strange one there's basically the federal government and everyone else you know
Starting point is 04:21:51 there's the federal government, it's loyal state government lackeys and everyone else. That's kind of like, that's kind of what it is now, you know. And, you know, if you're, if you're somewhere like, let's say in the deep south, you're not really under the rule of the federal government. And a lot of people there breathe easier because they're not. Because they just, that's generally what their quality of life is. When he says that in 2050, you know, the age of politics, parties will be forgotten. I mean, the age of parties is basically gone.
Starting point is 04:22:20 I mean, there are political parties in this country, but they, for the most part, both are wedded to the culture distortors that came in in the early 20th century, and they answer to them. So he's not wrong. He's just not, it's just people haven't figured out yet that they, for the most part, the two parties that they see have basically become one. and they are both living, and most of the people in this country, too, are living under the spirit of this age. And the spirit of this age is what Thomas talks about, the Nuremberg regime, what Adorno talked about in the authoritarian personality. And basically, even if we don't realize it, we ascribe to it, most people ascribe to it. and the government, the two parties in charge, definitely described to it.
Starting point is 04:23:23 Yeah, and a mutual friend of ours, Christopher Samash, and I've said this on a couple of other streams, he's been saying recently that the culture war is over, and it's over because basically you are on the side of the federal government or you are not. Like, it's over because everyone realized that anything the federal government does is astroturfed in anything that is like organic the federal government opposes, right? You know, so it doesn't really matter if you're like a dirtbag leftist. I'm not saying this because I like them.
Starting point is 04:23:53 Fuck the leftists. I hate them all. But like, you know, we got a more pressing problem right now with the fact that basically the federal government is labeling anyone who doesn't have like triple vaxxer goes to diversity seminars, but isn't like a Malcolm X diverse person. you know they're labeling us they're basically labeling a good 50% of the country domestic terror threats right so so that's that's that's just how it is right you're either and if that's the case right then the federal government is doing that because they don't have power over the people
Starting point is 04:24:31 they are labeling threats and that's actually a really good thing you know whenever people get freaked out that the federal government is like taking some more like unbelievable power I'm like good they're spreading themselves dinner. They have reduced their area of operation. You know, you want to, it's really easy to find out the areas where the federal government has authority. Just look at a map of where counties
Starting point is 04:24:54 and localities where gun bans exist or gun restrictions of any kind exist. You know, that's, there you go. Those are the battle lines. That's where it exists. But anyway, we still got some more to go. Sure. All right.
Starting point is 04:25:11 All state organisms were distorted, sick in crisis, and this introspection was one great symptom of it. Supposedly internal politics was primary. If internal politics was actually primary, it must have meant that friend-enemy groupings could arise on an internal political question. If this did happen, in the extreme case civil war was to result, but unless civil war occurred, internal politics was still, in fact, secondary, limited, private, and not public. The very contention that inner politics was primary was polemical. What was meant was that it should be. The liberals and class warriors, then as now, spoke of their wishes and hope as facts, near facts, or potential facts. The sole result of focusing energy onto inner problems was to weaken the state in its dealings with other states.
Starting point is 04:26:17 The law of every organism allows only two alternatives. Either the organism must be true to itself, or it goes down into sickness or death. The nature, the essence of the state is inner peace and outer struggle. If the inner peace is disturbed or broken, the outer, the outer peace is disturbed or broken, the outer struggle is damaged. That's what I want to kind of, I want to, I want to hit on that real quick because, you know, it makes sense that if things are bad at home, then we're not really going to be focusing on abroad. If your house is on fire, you're not working at, you're not thinking about buying the plot next door, you know, um, Kierkegaard also says this, you know, we go inward to go outward, right?
Starting point is 04:27:01 Well, you can't go outward until you've got a satisfactory situation inward. You know, until you've got a satisfactory contentment and security, even in your personal life, with where you're at, with the decisions you've made, you either make peace with your bad ones and, you know, celebrate your good ones and then come to a sort of resolve and go forward. You know, and this is the same is true for like power politics, right? You know, if a country has a sort of, if the political disputes happening within a country are extremely minor and like not existential. You know, number one, they tend to get solved a lot more frequently and a lot more satisfactory if the stakes are simply lower. Number two, you're a lot more potent when dealing with external enemies. You know, the fighter, the boxer that goes in the ring and wins is the boxer that wins the battle in his own head before he steps in the ring. That's why in his later fights, Ali just started sucking because he just, you know, a lot of boxers were that way.
Starting point is 04:28:02 You know, they just, they just started succumbing to personal trauma and whatever bullshit circumstances and consequences that they created in their own lives. Same thing in country music singers and things like that. But anyway, it's the same thing, too, with like the course of states, right? You know, no one really thinks the United States is powerful politically in the way it used to be in, let's say, even the early odds. Because right now we've been fighting a fucking, like what, like a how long now, an eight years? year-long culture war and even if it is kind of ended it's not ended though like like the culture war i think between right and left is ended but now like now like the i don't know what the next war is going to be called um between you know lackeys of the government and everyone who is not in the
Starting point is 04:28:49 government i don't know what that's going to be called but like that's that's going to you know this whole american peaceful world order that has led to things like 20 million plus i don't know how many people are in Nigeria right now, but it's a lot and led to things like one day Amazon delivery and secure supply chains and all this other stuff. Like, you know, the more insane the U.S. gets, the higher the stakes get drawn in the internal politics of the United States, as Yaqui said, the extreme case being civil war, even if it is secondary, the less potent generally, the United States will be on the world stage. And so even two second-rate powers with second-rate economies like Russia and China can still basically muscle the United States out of former spheres of influence, but wouldn't have even been thought of even two decades ago.
Starting point is 04:29:40 What I see on the home front is the regime in power are the revolutionaries and the people who, you know, they consider to be the enemy. We're the counter-revolutionaries. and if that's if that's the framing you want to put it in i mean yeah you that that's certainly a framing you could have i mean we do i think everyone in the united states does agree that our government is not like a government of the united states everyone knows that whoever's in charge it is not the american people as in so much as the american people can be in charge or at least an elite that is at least recognizable to the american people you know it's it's and there There's a lot of different opinions as to who that elite actually is and what the goal actually is, but, you know, I think it would be absolutely insane how quickly most of our problems would be fixed if we actually had patriots in government, like elite or otherwise, people who cared about the future and had a stake in the future of the United States, if they were in government and wanted to create better conditions, most everything that we have now would be more or less either alleviated or fixed, you know.
Starting point is 04:30:56 shit trickles down like you know you get people people at the top doing good things and people at the bottom doing good well anyway i'm not i'm just saying that it's like look you know whatever winning entails i think winning entails you know ending this sort of pointless internal crisis that happened over you know reasons of culture distortion and just you know bringing us back to bringing us back to a path that we're supposed to have all right um all right last paragraph yes sir The organic and the inorganic ways of thinking do not intersect. Ordinary classroom logic, the logic of philosophy textbooks, tell us that there is no reason why state politics and war need even exist.
Starting point is 04:31:42 There is no logical reason why humanity could not be organized as a society, or as a purely economic enterprise, or as a vast book club. when I read that the first time, it made me laugh. But the higher organisms of states and the highest organisms, the high cultures, do not ask logicians for permission to exist. The very existence of this type of rationalists, the man emancipated from reality, is only a symptom of a crisis in the high culture. and when the crisis passes, the rationalists pass away with it. The fact that the rationalists are not in touch with the invisible organic forces of history is shown by their predictions of events.
Starting point is 04:32:36 Before 1914, they universally asserted that a general European war was impossible. Two different types of rationalists gave their two different reasons. The class warriors of the International said the international class war socialism would make an impossible to mobilize the workers of one country against the workers in another country. The other type, also with its center of gravity and economics, since rationalism and materialism are indissolubly wedded, said no general war was possible because mobilization would bring about such a dislocation of the economic life of the countries that a breakdown would come in a few weeks. So this is my problem with like Austrians and other people like that. Like economics is downstream from law. Not only is culture downstream from law, economics is downstream from law.
Starting point is 04:33:34 Law is downstream from politics. Therefore, economics is downstream from politics, right? You know, it's literally, it's all politics. you know, maybe, maybe, you know, Bronsky gentleman I was talking about earlier, he had this theory that wealth is one to one for power, which could be true to be completely honest, at least in the system of the United States,
Starting point is 04:33:58 but, you know, power has more than one means. Power could be how many soldiers you have at your disposal or however many, you know, means of, whatever the unit of force exercising is, is power, all right? and you know there's various ways to do that um but i mean my whole my whole thing with it is man my whole thing with it is mr p is just is just that like you know people react to what the authorities in their life tell them to right they get people get socialized this way you're socialized to listen to your father or your mother right or basically your parents and then from
Starting point is 04:34:40 the socialization to listen to your parents that logic carries over to like um socialization outside the household you listen to cops you listen to you know lawyers judges other people like that because they're authority figures because you know basically this is one automated system of social trust because in the rearing of children and the orienting of people to the to the existence we can't reinvent the wheel every single fucking time so we have to we have to you know model our systems off of what we learn in our earliest days you know and the chain goes all the way up to God. Like, I'm pretty sure this is how God instituted things.
Starting point is 04:35:16 You know, he wants us to obey things. And so the logic, you follow it all the way up. You eventually get to him. Okay, obey, obey him. But, you know, and then you start getting ideas, well, I don't need to obey anyone on the chain between me and him. And that actually, that doesn't, like, make the chain obsolete. It just puts you in a place where you could be at the top of the chain
Starting point is 04:35:36 because there's no one in between you and him. Anyway, I don't want to, I want to get into that. Because I do think that caste mobility is as such of the thing, if the individual's destiny is that there are people who are destined to fall in caste and there are people who are destined to rise in caste, much as high cultures are destined to do whatever they do. But I mean, you know, that's kind of the whole point of this here, is it's like politics is the continuation of existence. It's security. It is existential security, i.e. it is you being. able to physically continue your life against those things which threaten the continuation of your life. That is politics, you know, and that's what Yaqui's talking about here in this section, and it's a relatively simple, and I think that it's a definition that stands up to the,
Starting point is 04:36:27 to the classroom of history, and it's a definition. I think that, you know, scholars like Dr. Gottfried and others have kind of taken to be the center point of their assumptions on the world, and I think the best assumptions of the world come from this kind of, this kind of understanding of what politics is. The second group that he talks about there who, you know, want economics to be at the forefront, we tried that. And, you know, then you'll still have people who will be like, no, well, real economics, lay say fair economics has never been tried. You know, the whole socialism has never been tried. Every, you know, nothing, ideology has never been tried because ideology cannot exist in reality.
Starting point is 04:37:10 Burnham wrote that very, wrote a section in suicide of the West very clearly that proved that to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. Ideology is created in a lab, and as soon as something breaks out of a lab, it gets hit with reality. And then it falls to Pete, ideology falls to pieces because it wasn't created in reality. The whole thing that economics can, you know, if we get our economics right, you know, then we can become self-ordering, when are you going to get your economics right? What's it going to take? And do you have to get rid of all hierarchy, anyone who likes hierarchy? Well, then you're with the first people
Starting point is 04:37:53 and you should be marching with the international. There is just, it's about power. It's about culture. It's about a high culture. And when people have a high culture, decide that power is something that's important to them and they start to pursue it and start to put in motion that which they hold on to, then we will see change. Yeah, it's true. And, you know, like, and this is the thing, right,
Starting point is 04:38:33 you know, if power is the most important thing in society, right, which I mean, you know, and even outside of society, power is the most important thing. And I'm making, I'm talking exclusively non-theological. I know real life is theological, but this is, this is, in many ways, we're kind of going against what Jackie says, but this is, even talking in politics and a purely political brain is, is, is in the realm of theory, because you can never predict what the will of God is, you know, Terry, Terry Davis, which is in a controversial opinion once said, it's totally normal for the strong to dominate the weak. It is a act of God to have the weak dominate the strong. And if you set up a society in which the weak perpetually dominate
Starting point is 04:39:20 the strong, then basically you're kind of affronting God. And I mean, you know, so theological disclaimer aside, like, you know, if power is the most important, important thing, more important than economics, more important than science and technology and all of this other stuff. If power is the most important thing, then it should be the number one thing we focus on, not the only thing, but the number one thing we focus on. If it's the number one thing we focus on, then we have to understand what is it. And that's why I recommended that gentleman um um i keep calling i keep wanting to call him charles bronckey i think it's james bronsky i don't know but he's he was recently on patrick casey's show talks about his theories of power and that he's
Starting point is 04:40:09 actually turning it into a measurable science using certain metrics um and it has some promise i don't know if i agree with all of it but it certainly does have some promise to it um and yeah like like if if this is what we're going to do um maybe we need to under if we understand what power is is, all right, then maybe we need to, we need to understand how power works. And if we understand how power works, we know how to kind of start inserting ourselves into its workings and then start mastering its workings. You know, that's, that's it, that's how it is. Yeah, people will say that, you know, people who have no power, people who are poor, people who are weak, they have, you know, they have no rights. And, you know, Nietzsche would say, yeah, you have the right to be
Starting point is 04:40:56 dominated. So, yeah, you have to have, you have to figure out how to get power or get your friends in power. Yeah, it's true. And, you know, and a lot of guys on the dissident right, like, you know, the vaccine mandate being the primary thing, the fact that you said no to that, and if you're still unvaccinated to this day, you know, that kind of shows that you actually do have a modicum of power, right? Because power at the end of the day is having power over the pressure around you and having the wisdom to navigate that situation. So I do think that there is, that there is some good human capital here that can be, that can be utilized in a qualitative sense. It's just, you know, power needs to be understood in order to apply the qualitative
Starting point is 04:41:41 capital to it in order to utilize it. And that's, I think, I think the big question of the day now isn't so much, what are we? It's more of what is power and how do we use it? All right. What do you want to plug and talk about anything. I mean, well, because I haven't done this on your show yet. Most all of you know about my substack, my Twitter, my substack is the Fahrenheit Family Archives. My Twitter is at Cav King Paul on Twitter. Got a telegram called Hotel Fahrenheit.
Starting point is 04:42:10 Deleted the chat recently because, to be honest, it was more than I was interested in. But if you go on my Twitter page and pinned underneath my profile is my most recent collection of short stories that I have compiled. and published called A Country Squire's Notebook. It is available on Gumroad for PDF for $16.7. It is a collection of seven short stories set in my sort of reified, reconstructed, fantasy, mystical version of my home state of Virginia. I've been told nothing but good things about it, and I'm hoping that all of you will enjoy it. It's also possible, I'm not going to presume, but it is possible that Antelope Hill will be publishing it as a physical copy if they
Starting point is 04:42:59 decide that they would like to publish it because I've contacted them and they seem, they said that they were interested in looking at it. And so if that's the case, then a physical copy will be available soon should they decide to publish it. But otherwise, that is the one thing I have to plug. Check it out. The forward was written by a good friend of mine, T.R. Hudson, who's also around these spheres. And so that's kind of, that's all I really got to plug. for the moment. Also, uh, subscribe to, um, my good friend Pete Kinyonez, uh, become a premium subscriber, give them money, uh, do all of these things. Well, and also, uh, tune into the old glory club when you, when you, uh, get a chance. I completely forgot. You've just totally showed me up. Yes,
Starting point is 04:43:40 do the old glory club. Subscribe, follow all of the things. Yeah, YouTube channel for, uh, let's see if we can keep that. And the substack, which is becoming, getting a lot more on there. Paul, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Pete. I'm happy to come back whenever you'll have me. Absolutely. Thank you. Yes, sir. I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignonez Show. Returning for another reading of Mr. Francis Parker Yaqui is Mr. Paul Fahrenheit. How are you doing, Mr. Paul? I'm very well, Mr. Pete. You know, I just noticed it right this second, but we're the two apostles, Peter and Paul, reading Imperium. I love whenever we get to read, whenever we get to read Imperium, because I was telling you before we got
Starting point is 04:44:29 started, like, you know, this is my favorite book, at least in this sort of scene, and I never get a chance to talk about it. So I'm really glad whenever you asked me to come on and we can do one of these little reading sections. Well, I appreciate that. And I think the reason I pick this one is because when we first became acquainted, you pointed me to an article that you had written on Yaqui's conception of race, which I think has been taken down from that website. I looked for it recently. And it was something that helped start me down the road of looking at race differently and looking at high culture and comparing, you know, having the, what he's going to, what we'll talk
Starting point is 04:45:13 about when we're reading this, his two different conceptions of what race is. Yes, sir. All right. So let me get this shared up on the screen. And are we going to do it like we usually do? You read a section and I'll comment on it. Yes, that is exactly how we're going to do it. And let me expand this.
Starting point is 04:45:34 Boom. I'll try to keep my, because this is a longer section or a longer chapter rather. I'm going to try to keep my ramblings as short as possible. but you all know me it's not going to be short all right so this someone someone once told me real quick someone once told me i read this in a book there was a line in this book that stabbed me in the heart and it said with the irishman's need to tell someone something well it's nicer than what irish people usually get that's fair criticized for so this is from imperium by francis Parker Yaqui, it is from the cultural vitalism section.
Starting point is 04:46:14 And this section is called Race People, Nation, State. The 19th century concepts of race, people, nation, and state are exclusively of rationalistic, romantic provenance. They are the results of imposing a thought method adapted to material problems onto living things. And thus, they are materialistic mean, materialistic, materialistic means shallow as applied to living things for with all life the spirit is primary and the material is the mere vehicle of spiritual expression. That's a great sentence. Just saying that the spirit is primary and that the material is basically used to express the spirit. Why does DNA program every single, like, you know, DNA is in every living thing on earth,
Starting point is 04:47:09 Mr. Pete, right? How does DNA know? And it's like what, like 99% similar across like something across like, or it's like 60% similar between like a tomato and a human being or something like that? You know, how does DNA know to make everything into a thing, right? You know, and this is this is a little bit of Platonism is it's like, is it's like there are ideas up in the sort of world of forms that, you know, we imagine God to kind of either exist in or exist above. But, like, yeah, that's kind of, that's kind of what this is the, this is the whole conception of race, Yaki is speaking of is that, like, you can, you can, you know how Mr. Pete, if you keep cutting a pie slice and you can keep cutting it into infinitely smaller and
Starting point is 04:47:54 smaller and smaller and smaller pieces in theory? Well, this is, this is, I mean, all the way down to the individual, right, all the way down to the individual human being, right? you can divide the quote-unquote human species. And there's a little bit of Darwinism, but like Darwinism, I think Darwinism gets misunderstood by a lot of people. The idea of classifying species within like certain large groups
Starting point is 04:48:18 and then smaller groups and smaller groups and smaller, that's just kind of intuitive. You know, some species are far closer to each other than others. But it's like, even within human beings, like the fact that human beings are the only mammal on earth, the only large mammal on earth with zero,
Starting point is 04:48:34 sub-species? Hmm. I don't know. Anyway. Since these 19th century concepts were rationalistic, they were basically unfactual for life is irrational, unamenable to inorganic logic and systemist and systemat, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, systemization, systematization. Systematization.
Starting point is 04:48:59 Oh, shoot, that's a, that's a system. Keep going, sorry. I read this this afternoon. The age upon which we are entering and of which this is formulation is an age of politics, and hence an age of facts. The broader subject is the adaption, health, and pathology of higher cultures. Their relationship to every type of human grouping is a prerequisite to examining the last problems of cultural vitalism. The nature of these groupings will therefore be looked at without preconceptions with a view to reaching their deepest meanings, origin, life, and interconnections.
Starting point is 04:49:40 Material inanimate objects retain their identity through the years, and thus the type of thinking suited to dealing with material things assumed that the political and other human groupings in existence in 1800 represented something a priori, something of the very essence of permanent reality. Everything was regarded as a creation of one of these peoples. This applied to the arts of form, literature, state, techniques, culture generally. This view is not in accordance with historical facts. The first concept in order is race.
Starting point is 04:50:23 The materialistic race thinking of the 19th century had particularly heavy consequences for Europe when it was coupled with one of the early 20th century movements of resurgence of authority. Any excrescence of theoretical equipment on a political movement is a luxury, and the Europe of 1933 through 2000 can afford none such. Europe has paid dearly for the romantic concern with old-fashioned racial theories, and they must be destroyed. excrescence is like a it's a scatological term
Starting point is 04:51:06 yeah it's well it's also something i think it could be like a a fungus something that grows out and is not is not natural something to be cut out yeah scatological works yeah part two race has two meanings which will be taken in order and then their relative importance in an age of absolute politics will be shown The first meaning is an objective one, the second subjective.
Starting point is 04:51:32 The succession of human generations related by blood have the clear tendency to remain fixed in a landscape. Nomadic tribes wander within larger but equally definite bounds. Within this landscape, the form of plants and animal life have local characteristics, different from transplantations of the same strains and stocks. in other landscapes. The anthropological studies of the 19th centuries of the 19th century covered a mathematical presentable fact which affords a good starting point to show the influence of the soil.
Starting point is 04:52:15 It was discovered that for any given inhabited area of the world, there was an average cephalic index of the population. Cephalic refers to head, like head shape. the shape of someone's head. More important, it was learned through measurements on immigrants to America from every part of Europe and then on their children born in America that the cephalic index adheres to the soil and immediately makes itself manifest in the new generation. Thus, long-headed Jews from Sicily and short-headed ones from Germany produced offspring
Starting point is 04:52:51 with the same average head measurement, the specifically American one. bodily size and span of growth were two other characteristics in which all types whatever in America, Indians, Negroes, white men were found to have the same average, regardless of average size and growth span of the countries or stocks from which they came. In the case of immigrant Irish children coming from a country of a very long growth span, the response to the local influence was immediate. So, Yaki is basing that assertion upon an essay Carl Jung wrote when he was visiting the United States. He was like watching a bunch of guys leave a factory or something like that. And he gasped and he's like, my God, I didn't know that there were so many of you who had Indian blood in them. And then his companion kind of looked at him and said, I wouldn't say there was a single drop of Indian blood between any of those men. They're probably mostly Scottish or English.
Starting point is 04:53:56 And this is kind of, this is a theory that, you know, this is a theory that I think deserves a lot more investigation because I'm not necessarily convinced of its, of its truth the way Yaqui is asserting it. But there is certainly something to it. You know, the idea, the idea that like the soil, the, you know, because different, different places quite literally have different soil compositions by measurement, even if it's like minutely different, you know. Like Pete, you know, the black belt of Alabama has an entirely different soil composition than, let's say, the shopper all in Texas, right? It's like, sorry, I'm probably, I'm probably, I probably use the, uh, but anyway, that's the whole point is it's like, is it's like there's whole, there's different compositions of soil. The Lana Estacotta, that's what I was trying to say. I think the shopper all is a rainforest somewhere. I apologize. Um, but the Lana Estacado and the Black Belt of Alabama have two entirely different soil compositions. Um, same thing. You know, I, I found this out when I was going to the U.S.
Starting point is 04:55:08 event this year. Um, Cringe Walker told me, because Cringe Walker was in the car with me, Grinch Walker told me that the Appalachian mountain chain was actually the exact same composition as the Scottish Highlands. It was part of the exact same tectonic plate. Um, it, it's, it peaks above the ground in the Scottish Highlands and in the Appalachian Mountains, but then it like dips under the earth all the way through the Atlantic Ocean before it peaks out again. And so that was, that was super interesting to me. So it appears, it appears that not only do people, and, you know, that's the Appalachian Mountains are where the highest proportion of Scots-Irish people settled in the United States, you know. So I really do think that there is something to what is being
Starting point is 04:55:50 asserted here is that it's like the soil, not only does the soil have an influence upon which groups of how the groups of people look upon like for example if people were to come to the united states they start elongating getting larger physiognomies etc but also i think it kind of controls where groups of people not counting outliers settle you know like there's a reason that the midwest german settled in the fricking midwest which resembles brandenburg there's a reason you can't find any Americans with any real like English ancestry once you get further than 10 miles inland from the coast, you know, it's, it's things like that. I don't know, Pete. Yeah. I mean, no, it's interesting. When I was reading this morning, I was taking some notes in the
Starting point is 04:56:39 column and just a lot of question marks, something. Yeah, it would be good if someone could pick up on that again. But of course, we're in an age where things like this would be considered pseudoscience and I really don't believe it is. We got ecologists and geneticists to like, we got more of them than you can shake a stick at. But if any of you are listening, I want you to start investigating this immediately. From these and other facts,
Starting point is 04:57:07 both comparatively new and of ancient observation, it is apparent that the landscape exerts an influence on the human stocks within its bounds as well as on the plant and animal life. The technique of this influence is beyond, our ken. The source of it we do know. It is the cosmic unity of the totality of things, a unity which shows itself in the rhythmic and cyclic movement of nature. Man does not stand out of this unity, but is submerged in it. His duality of human soul and beast of prey is also a unity. We separate him
Starting point is 04:57:43 thus to understand him, but this cannot disturb his unity, nor by separating in our thoughts the aspects of nature can we destroy its unity. The moon cycle stands in a relationship to many human phenomena of which we can only know what, but never how. All movement whatever in nature is rhythmic, the movements of streams and waves, of winds and currents, of appearance and disappearance of living individuals, of species of life itself. Man partakes of these rhythms. His particular structure gives these rhythms their peculiarly human form. The side of his nature that expresses this connection is race. Race in a man is the plane of his being,
Starting point is 04:58:34 which stands in relationship to plants and animal life and beyond them to the great macrocosmic rhythms. It is, so to speak, the part of man that is generalized into, absorbed into the all, rather than his soul, which defines his species, and sets him off from all other forms of existence. Life manifests itself in the four forms, plant, animal, man, high culture. Distinct though each is, yet it is related to all the others. The animals subject as they are to the soil retained thus in their being a plane of plant-like existence. Racist
Starting point is 04:59:18 the expression of the plant-like and also of the animal-like in man. The high culture, by being fixed for its duration to a landscape, retains also a connection with the plant world, no matter how defiant and free-moving are its proud creations. Its high politics and great wars are an expression of the animal and human in its nature. Some of the totality of human character... Yeah, so, I mean, what he's trying to say here is, so Yaki, Yaki's done this earlier in the book, but he's trying to outline that there's sort of basically four levels in terms of sophistication of human life, or not human life, of life on earth, plants being the most simple, animals being the animals being slightly more sophisticated,
Starting point is 05:00:09 man, or what he calls man as animal being even more sophisticated, and then the high culture being a sort of sophistication above man. And this is a lot of his German ideal influence coming in. This idea that human beings, when possessed by ideas, those ideas it themselves kind of take on a life of its own. That's kind of what he's talking about here. And the high culture is sort of the highest kind of this concept coming out of this German idealist tradition.
Starting point is 05:00:41 Some of the totality of human characteristics are soil determined. others are stock determined. Pigmentation is one of the latter and survives transplantation to other areas. It is not possible to list all of even the physical characteristics according to such a scheme for the data has not been gathered. But even so, it would not matter to our purpose for the most important element also in the objective meaning of race is the spiritual. Some stocks are more, some stocks are undoubtedly more high.
Starting point is 05:01:15 highly endowed than others in certain spiritual directions. Spiritual qualities are as diverse as physical qualities. Not only average height of body varies, but also average height of soul. Not only skull shape and stature are soil determined, but so must be some spiritual properties. It is impossible to believe that a cosmic influence which puts its mark on human bodies passes over the essence, the soul. But so thoroughly mixed have all the stocks been
Starting point is 05:01:49 or so repeatedly skimmed by history that we can never know original soul qualities of landscapes. Of the racial qualities of a given population on the spiritual side, we can never know which are soil bound and which have been produced by the amalgamation of stocks through the generations. Okay. This I actually slightly disagree with
Starting point is 05:02:11 because I actually think we do have a very good idea as to as to what original, and this is, of course, I don't want to distract from it, but I think there is actually, we have a really good idea of what was more original of a, what is it, what was more original of the human type and what has kind of been produced by sort of mixing over time. And some are more obvious the others. Like, for example, we all know that that anyone on the subcontinent is the result of the mixing of the ancient Aryans and the Dravidians. And, you know, it's the same thing with Latin America, with, you know, the Indios versus high-cast Europeans. So, you know, it's like, it's like a lot of these, I really do think, I think it's, we have a lot more information. And maybe it's maybe because Yaki was writing in 1948. So there's been like the human genome project or, yeah, the human genome project has been a massive thing, which basically, you guys want to know why leftists are going so crazy
Starting point is 05:03:10 right now is because the um am i am i saying the name of it incorrectly is it was it the human genome project what was it was that it which one which one when they were trying to map uh they were trying to map the human genome project uh okay 2000 2002 2003 yeah and this was and people forget how recent all this leftist hysteria is but like back in like the 90s and early 2000s p it was really common and almost even acceptable to talk about how race and IQ are course correlated. This was back when the bell curve was very popular and all that. And so, you know, like, you know, look, human genome basically shattered any ideas of, you know, any one human family and stuff like that. So now this is old hat, but, you know, Yaki didn't have a lot of this. So just a minor disagreement is that, you know, Yaki, this is a great work with a lot of great stuff in it and a lot of great principles. And this just, you know, when Yaki is making some of these assertions, he didn't have a lot of data that we have now. Keep going.
Starting point is 05:04:15 Gotcha. All right. To a practical century like this and the next origins and explanations are less important than facts and possibilities. Therefore, our next concern must be with race as a practical reality rather than with metaphysics. To what race does a man belong? We know at first glance, but exactly what sign tells us this cannot be materially
Starting point is 05:04:40 explained. It is accessible only to the feelings, the instincts, and does not yield itself to the scale and balance of physical science. We have seen that race is connected with landscape and with stock. Its outer manifestation is a certain typical expression, a play of features, a cast of countenance. There are no rigid physical indicia of this expression, but this does not affect its existence, but solely the method of understanding it. Within wide limits, a primitive population in a landscape has a similar look, but closer scrutiny will be able to find local refinements, and these again will branch down into tribes, clans, families, and finally individuals.
Starting point is 05:05:31 Race in the objective sense is the spiritual biological community of a great, group. This is kind of I was talking about earlier in the earlier in the stream was that like, you know, if you take a bunch of human, if you take a bunch of individual humans together, there, a culture is more than just the sum of the individuals in a town, especially the more homogenous you make it. It's kind of like a, it's, it's, it's something more than the sum of its parts. And that's kind of what Yaqui is describing here, the spiritual, biological community of a group.
Starting point is 05:06:08 There is very, the biological component of it is vital and he talks about this, but it's mostly, it is, it is the spiritual component as well that makes it more than just a collection of biomass in a particular location with similar gene structures. Correct. Yep. All right. Thus, races cannot be classified other than arbitrarily. The materialistic 19th century produced several classifications of this arbitrary kind. The only character, characteristics used were, of course, purely material ones. Thus, skull form was the basis of one, hair and speech type of another, no shape and pigmentation of another. This was at best mere group anatomy, but did not approach race. Human beings living in contact with one another influence one another and thus approach one another. This applies to individuals where it has been noted through the ages in the fact that an old married couple come to resemble one another physically, and it applies to groups as well.
Starting point is 05:07:13 What is called the assimilation of one group by another is not at all merely the result of co-mingling of germplasm as materialism thought. It is mostly the result of spiritual influence of the assimilating group on the newcomers, which is natural and complete when there are no strong barriers between the groups. The lack of barriers leads to the disappearance of the racial boundary and thereafter a new race is present, the amalgamation of the two previous ones. The stronger one is influenced usually but slightly, but there are various possibilities here, and an examination of them belongs properly to a subsequent place.
Starting point is 05:07:55 Part 3. We have seen that race objectively used describes a relationship between a population in a landscape and is essentially an expression of cosmic beat. Its prime visible manifestation is the look, but this invisible reality expresses itself in other ways. So the Chinese, for instance, smell is a hallmark of race. Certainly audible things, speech, song, laughter also have racial significance. So susceptibility to disease is another racially differentiated phenomena. The Japanese, Americans, and Negroes have three different degrees of resistance to tuberculosis.
Starting point is 05:08:38 American medical statistics show that Jews have more nervous disease, more diabetes, and less tuberculosis than the Americans, and that, in fact, the incidence of any one disease shows a different figure for the Jews. Gesture, gait, dress are not without racial significance. but the face is the great visible sign of race. We do not know what it is that conveys race and the physiognomy and attempts to reach it by statistics and measurements must fail. This fact has caused liberals and other materialists to deny that race exists. This incredible doctrine came from America, which is veritably a large-scale racial laboratory. I want to focus on that sentence real quick.
Starting point is 05:09:30 America, which is veritably a large-scale racial laboratory, that's actually one of the best descriptions of the United States I've ever heard in my entire life. You know, yeah, they call it the American experiment for a reason because basically America is where quite literally anything and everything has been tried. It's kind of this great free-for-all zone. but yeah you know he is correct in that it can only come from the united states um and i mean you're seeing you're seeing shoot man like you know when i go to the gym i'm like the whitest looking dude in there with like a couple of the other guys but like all of even like the the white people in the gym look kind of racially ambiguous and everyone else i i don't know whether they're like Hispanic or what they are.
Starting point is 05:10:21 But all I know is that they're all like some shade of brown. You know, it's like in this, that, you know, Pete, you know, you know exactly what I'm talking about, right? Like, like this really racially ambiguous looking individual where you don't know kind of like there's some kind of brown, but you don't know what like kind of mixed they are. Sort of like the rock. Yeah.
Starting point is 05:10:40 It's like, it's like, okay, are you Pacific Islander? Are you Filipino? Are you, what, what is this? So, yeah, and that's, and, you know, people were talking about the, the star of Snow White or whatever. We were reading about her and it's like, um, Colombian mother, Polish father. And I'm like, a mix only New Jersey could create. All right. Be nice.
Starting point is 05:11:06 Um, I'm going to continue. This doctrine really only amounts to a confession of total inability of rationalism and scientific method to understand race or subjected to, order of the type of the physical sciences, and this inability was known before by those who have clung to facts and resisted anti-factual theories. Suppose that a man were to familiarize himself thoroughly with the measurements, length of nose, brows, chin, with a brow, jaws, mouth, etc. With every face he knew until he could fairly well say from a new face what its measurements would be. If he were then given a set of measurements merely written down as such, does anyone think that even such a specially trained person could form any idea in his mind of the
Starting point is 05:11:56 racial expression of the face from which the measurements were taken? Of course not. And the same is true of any other expression of race. Another important objective aspect of race finds an analogy in the fashions of female physiognomy which come and go in a late urban civilization. When a given female type is held up as an ideal, it is a fact that the kind of women who are sensitive, the kind of woman who is sensitive to this sort of thing very soon develops the facial expression of this type. In the domain of race, a similar phenomenon exists. Given a race with a certain distinct cosmic beat, its members develop automatically and instinct for racial beauty, which affects the choice of mates and also works on each individual
Starting point is 05:12:47 soul from within, so that this double impetus forms the racial type pointing toward a certain ideal. This instinct for racial beauty, needless to say, has no connection with the decadent, erotic cults of the Hollywood type. Such ideals are purely individual, intellectual, and have no connection with race. Race being an expression of the cosmic is informed throughout with the urge to continuity, and a racially ideal woman is always thought of, quite unconsciously, as a potential mother of strong sons. The racially ideal man is the master who will enrich the life of the woman who secures him as the father of her children.
Starting point is 05:13:31 The degenerate eroticism of the Hollywood type is anti-racial. Its root idea is not life continuity, but pleasure, with a woman as the object of pleasure and the man as the slave of this object. That's kind of insightful. You know, he talks about, what is it? He talks about, like, different sort of facial expressions as time goes by amongst women, which is something I've definitely noticed. I don't have any specific examples.
Starting point is 05:14:05 It's just a general comment on that. All right. Where am I? Okay. I think they, um, started 124. The, the talk about the degenerate eroticism of the Hollywood type is anti-racial, um, how when a, the racially ideal man is the master who will enrich the life of the woman who secure him as the father of her children and how it's basically the exact opposite where in Hollywood, the woman is in charge and the man now just becomes a slave of his own
Starting point is 05:14:39 impulses. Yeah, he's describing what we call the Longhouse, you know, this sort of instinct that Yaqui would categorize under his man as animal category. You know, like the sort of Earth Mother fertility cults is kind of like this
Starting point is 05:14:55 lower form of life. This striving of a race towards its own physical type is one of the great facts with which one cannot tamper by trying to substitute ideals of amalgamation with type totally alien as liberalism and communism tried to do during the reign of rationalism.
Starting point is 05:15:16 Race cannot be understood if it is inwardly associated with phenomena from other planes of life such as nationality, politics, people, state, culture. While history in its advance may bring about for a few centuries a strong relationship between race and nation, that is not to say that a preceding racial type always forms a subsequent political unit. If that were so, none of the former nations of Europe would have been formed on the lines they were.
Starting point is 05:15:46 For example, think of the racial differences between the Calabrian and Lombard. What did they matter to the history of Garibaldi's time? This brings us to the most important phase of the objective meaning of race in this age. History narrows or widens the limits of race determinacy. The way this is done is through the spiritual element in race. Thus, a group with spiritual and historical community tends to acquire also a racial aspect.
Starting point is 05:16:19 The community of which its higher nature partakes is transmitted downward to the lower cosmic part of the human nature. Thus, in Western history, the early nobility tended to constitute itself as a race to complement its unity on the spiritual side. The extent to which this proceeded is still apparent wherever historical continuity of the early nobility has been maintained to the present day. He's talking about right there the, sorry, he's talking about right there the myth.
Starting point is 05:16:52 Although it was largely based in reality too, but it's like, you know, the idea of like the French, Arthur de Gabino talks about this of how the French aristocracy constituted itself as an entirely different race from the French peasantry. This is where the word Nordic versus Alpanoid kind of gets thrown out. An important example of this is the creation of the Jewish race that we now know in the millennium of ghetto existence in Europe. Leaving to one side for the moment a different world outlook and culture of the Jew,
Starting point is 05:17:24 this sharing by a group, whatever the basis of its original formation as such, of a common fate for centuries will hammer it into a race as well as a spiritual. spiritual historical unit. Race influences history by supplying its material, its treasures of blood, honor, and strong instincts. History, in turn, influences race by giving to units of high history a racial stamp as well as their spiritual one. Race is a lower plane of existence in the sense that it is closer to the cosmic,
Starting point is 05:18:01 more in touch with the primitive yearnings and urges of life in general. History is the higher plane of existence where the specifically human and above that, the high cultural represent the differentiation of forms of life. The method of racialization of an historical unit as the Western nobilities were racialized is through the inevitable cosmic rising in such a group of an ideal physical type and the instinct for racial beauty, which work together through the germplasm and inwardly in each soul to, give this group its own look that individualizes it in the stream of history. Once this community of fate departs through the vicissitudes of history, this race vanishes also never to appear again. You know, kind of on this, it's like, what is this? Racialization of a historical unit.
Starting point is 05:18:59 And basically every so often you have this group that comes about and differentiate itself physically and then it disappears. The example that comes to my mind immediately is, you ever seen those ancient Sumerian kings who had these like cylindrical beards? You know what I'm talking about? I know exactly you're talking about. And you,
Starting point is 05:19:19 it's just, you never see them anymore. You know, it's, I don't know, I don't know if it's, if it was such a way of like, that,
Starting point is 05:19:27 of how they groomed it, but it's just that's, that's an example. That kind of passed away with them. Yeah. Yeah. Egyptian too. seems like the pharaohs a lot of the pharaohs had beards that were in the same style as well exactly yeah part four from this point the fundamental misunderstanding of the
Starting point is 05:19:47 19th century materialistic interpretation of race appears clear and distinct race is not group anatomy race is not independent of the soil race is not independent of spirit and history races are not classifiable except on an arbitrary basis race is not a rigid permanent collective characterization of human beings, which remains always the same throughout history. The 20th century outlook, based on facts and not on the preconceptions of physics and mechanics, sees race as fluid, gliding over history over the fixed skeletal form determined by the soil.
Starting point is 05:20:27 Just as history comes and goes, so does race with it, bound in a symbiosis of happening. The peasants now tilling the soil near Persepolis are of the same race as those who planted or roamed there a thousand years before Darius, regardless of what they were called then or what they are called now, and in the time between, a high culture fulfilled itself in this area, creating race is now gone forever. This is kind of like, this is another thing that Yaqui talks about. like what he's describing here is what's called the fellaheen you know a sort of what is it like or you know you could see it as the sort of the french the french peasants as opposed to the french nobility you know it's like it's like there is a sort of perpetual people tied to a soil that never kind of vanish you know they're a lower people they're not a they're not capable of high artistic achievements just simply because that's not what they are and then these high cultures are very small
Starting point is 05:21:28 aristocracies of race, as Yaqui puts it, who differentiate themselves in such a way of, of, what is it, soil, spirit and history and physical differentiation. And then it vanishes away. Like, none of the Persians of, you know, of Darius's day live around where Persepolis sits now. None of the Romans of Caesar's day live really in Latium anymore. You know, it's kind of, you know, even if genetically there are still markers there, it's, it's like, it's like, you know, when Tony Sopranos says you're looking at the Romans, like everyone knows that's just not true because the Romans are gone forever, basically. You know, they were a, they were a flash of, of, you know, they were a flash of historical moment and then passed away, like every other high culture passes away, you know. Right. And I think we all know this instinctively. It doesn't matter if, uh,
Starting point is 05:22:27 An Englishman, an Englishman now, what does an Englishman now share with an Englishman of, you know, 400 years ago? Maybe DNA. Yeah. Do they share a culture? Yeah. The last era, the confusing of names which, which with unities of history or race, was one of the most destructive made by 19th century material. names belongs to the surface of history, not to its rhythmic cosmic side. If the present-day inhabitants of Greece have the same collective name that the population of
Starting point is 05:23:08 the same area had in Aristotle's time is anyone deceived into thinking that there is a historical continuity or racial continuity. Names, like languages, have their own destinies, and these destinies are independent of others. Thus from the common language, it should not be inferred that the inhabitants of Haiti and those of Quebec have a common origin, but this result would occur of necessity if 19th century methods were applied to the present, which we know, as well as to interpretation of the past from leftover names and languages. The inhabitants of Yucatan today are racially the same as in 100 AD, even though they now speak Spanish and then spoke and now banished tongue, even though they have a different name now from then. In between,
Starting point is 05:23:57 occurred the rise, fulfillment, and wiping out of a high culture, but after its passing, race became once more the primeval, simple relationship between stock and landscape. There was no high history to influence it or for it to influence. In the time of the Egyptian culture, a people called the Libyans gave their name to an area. Does that mean that whoever inhabits this are from this? then on related to them. The Prussians in the year 1,000 AD were an extra-European people. In 1700, the name Prussia described the nation in the Western style. Western conquerors merely acquired the name of the tribes they displaced.
Starting point is 05:24:42 That which went under the various names of Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Jutes, Ferengians, Saxons, Vandals, Norsemen, Danes, came from the same racial material, but the names do not show it. sometimes a group gives its name to an area so that after it is displaced the old name passes to the conquering group this was the case of prussia and britain sometimes a group takes its name from an area like the americans that's that's another thing um this is why when i when i get into arguments with people and i say that americans are a living culture um because they are you know there p there are plenty of americans alive today. And you know, America as a conception itself, you know, it's part of this sort of great continuity. Its origins are Anglo-Saxon largely, generally, with, you know, other little things thrown in. But it's specifically the Anglo-Saxons, when just thrown into the soil of the United States, basically. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, keep going. I agree. And, you know, I'm trying to put together
Starting point is 05:25:56 There are some thoughts on writing a paper about what American is, actually. My idea of what American is examining some other writers from history, some other thinkers. As far as the race history symbiosis is concerned, names are accidental. They do not indicate any sort of inward continuity by themselves. The same is true of language. Once the idea is grasped that what we call history really means high history. that this is the history of high cultures, and that these high cultures or organic unities expressing their inner possibilities in the profuse forms of thought and happening which lie before us.
Starting point is 05:26:38 A deep understanding follows of the way in which history uses whatever human material lies to hand for its fulfillment. It puts its impress on this material by creating historical units out of the group hitherto, often very diverse biologically. The historical unity in harmony with cosmic rhythms governing all life from plant to culture acquires its own racial unity, a new racial unity, removed by its spiritual historical content from the former primitive simple relationship between stock and soil. But with the departure of high history, the fulfillment of the culture, the spiritual historical content recedes forever, and the primitive harmony resumes its dominant position. The previous biological, history of the groups taken by a high culture play no role in this
Starting point is 05:27:39 process. Previous names of indigenous tribes, previous wanderings, linguistic equipment, none have any meaning for high history once it sets upon its course. It starts, so to speak, from a clean slate. But it remains this way also in its ability to take in whatever elements enter into its spirit. New elements, however, can bring nothing to the culture. It is higher individuality and thus has its own unity, which cannot even be influenced other than superficially by an organism of equivalent rank and a fortiori cannot be changed
Starting point is 05:28:20 in the slightest in its inner nature by any human group. Thus, any group coming within the area of a culture is either within the spirit of the culture or without it. There is no third alternative. Organic alternatives are always only two. Life or death, sickness or health, forward development or distortion. When the organism is put off its true path by external influences, crisis is bound to follow crisis, which will affect the entire life of the culture and will often involve the destiny of
Starting point is 05:28:55 millions in confusion and catastrophe. But this is an anticipation. The objective meaning of race has other aspects important to a 20th century outlook. It has been seen that races, meaning here primitive groupings, simple relationships between soil and human stock, have different gifts for historical purposes. We have seen that race influence. his history as well as the converse. We come to the hierarchy of races. Part 5. The materialist could, of course, not succeed with all their attempts to make an anatomical
Starting point is 05:29:36 classification of races. But races can be classified according to functional abilities, starting from any given function whatever. Thus, a hierarchy of races can be based on physical strength, and there is little doubt that the Negro would stand at the top of such a hierarchy. There would, however, be no point in such a hierarchy because physical strength is not the essence of human nature in general and even less of culture man in particular.
Starting point is 05:30:05 The fundamental impulse of human nature, above the instincts towards self-preservation and sex, which man shares with other life forms, is the will to power. Very seldom is there any struggle for existence among men. Such struggles as do occur are nearly always for control for power. These take place within couples and families, clans, tribes, and among peoples, nations, states. Therefore, the basing of a hierarchy of races on strength of will to power has a relation to historical realities.
Starting point is 05:30:41 Want me keep going? Yeah, I mean, in this part, I think it's best to have him kind of speak for himself. Yeah. Such a hierarchy can have, of course, no eternal validity. Thus, the school of Gobenau, Chamberlain, Osbaum, and Grant was on the same tangent as the materialist who announced that there is no such thing as race because they could not discover it with their methods. The mistake of the former was to assume the permanence backwards and forwards of races existing in their time. They were treating races as building blocks or original material and ignoring the connections of race in history, race and spirit, race and
Starting point is 05:31:25 destiny. So here he's talking about, when he mentions Gobine, Chamberlain, Osbaum, and Grant, Arthur de Gabonow and Madison Grant being the two I'm more familiar with, he's talking about these sort of 1920s capital P progressive eugenic sort of race types, you know, and he's, Yaki is essentially saying that, like, look, these guys are wrong because they assume that the races that existed in their time have existed perpetually. And they also placed too much of a primacy on the biological as opposed to the, as opposed to the historical, spiritual, and inner destiny portions of race, which Yaki is outlining here. I'm going to keep going. But at least they recognize the existing racial realities of their time.
Starting point is 05:32:18 Their sole mistake consisting in regarding these realities as rigid existing rather than becoming, existing rather than becoming. There was also in their approach a remnant of genealogical thinking, but this sort of thinking is intellectual and not historical. For history uses the human material at hand without questioning its antecedents, and in the process of using it, this human material is placed in relation to the vast mystical force of this. destiny. This remainder of genealogical thinking tended to create divisions in thought between culture peoples corresponding to no division in actuality. The further materialistic tendency developed to extend the principles of heredity, which Mendel had worked out for certain plants to the subject of human race.
Starting point is 05:33:11 Such a tendency was doomed to be fruitless, and after almost a century of barren results, It must be abandoned in favor of the 20th century outlook, which approaches history and its materials in the historical spirit and not in the scientific spirit of mechanics or geology. Nevertheless, the School of Gobineau at least started from a fact, and this brings it much closer to reality than the learned fools who looked up from their rulers and charts to announce the demise of race. the fact was the hierarchy of races for cultural purpose the fact that this fact was the hierarchy of races for cultural purposes in their day the word culture was used to designate literature and the fine arts as to stink from this from the ugly brutal things like economics techniques war and politics hence the center of gravity of these theories was on the side of intellect rather than on the side of the soul.
Starting point is 05:34:14 With the coming of the 20th century outlook and the clearing from the air of all materialistic romantic theories, the unity of culture was perceived through all of its various manifestations of arts, philosophy, religion, science, techniques, politics, state forms, race forms, war. Therefore, the hierarchy of races in this century is one based on degree of will to power. The classification of races is also arbitrary from the intellectual standpoint, just as much as one based on physical strength. It is, however, the only one suitable for us in this age.
Starting point is 05:34:56 Nor is it rigid, for the vicissitudes of history are more important in this realm than hereditary transmitted qualities. There is today no Hindu race, although there once was. The name is a byproduct of an accomplished history and corresponds to no racial group. Nor is there a Basque race, a Breton race, a Hessian race, an Andalusian race, Bavarian race, Austrian race. Similarly, races existing today in our Western civilization will also disappear with the advance of history over them. The source of a hierarchy of races is history, the forces of happening. Thus, when we see a European population with its own racial stamp, the English, hold down a population of hundreds of millions of Asiatics for two centuries with only a handful of its own troops, as the English did India.
Starting point is 05:35:52 We call that race one with a high degree of will to power. During the 19th century, amid 300 million Asiatics, England had a tiny garrison of 65,000 white troops. The mere numbers would mislead if we did not know that England was a nation in the service of a high culture in India, a mere landscape with primitive millions teeming in it, a landscape that had been also at one time the area of a high culture such as our own, but had long since returned to its pre-cultural primitivity within the ruins and monuments of the past. knowing this we know thereby that the source of this stern will to power is at least partially in the force of the destiny of the culture of which England was an expression when we see a race like the Spanish send forth two bands like the Cortez and Pizarro and read of their accomplishments we know we are in the presence of a race with high willpower
Starting point is 05:36:58 With a hundred odd men, Bizarro set out to overcome an empire of millions. The project of Cortez was of a like boldness and both achieved military success. It is not a slave race that can do such things. Aztec and Inda and Inca were no raceless populations but were themselves the vehicle of another high culture, a fact which makes these exploits almost incredible. The French race in the time of the revolution in Napoleonic Wars was in the service of a cultural idea, the mission of changing the whole direction from culture to civilization of opening the age of rationalism. The enormous force which this living idea went to the armies of France is shown by the 20-year succession of military victories over all the armies that repeated coalitions of all Europe could throw against them.
Starting point is 05:37:53 under Napoleon's personal command they achieved victory in more than not in more than a hundred and forty-five out of 150 engagements a race equal to such a test was one of high willpower in each of these cases the race was one created by history in such a unit the word race contains the two elements the stock landscape relationship and the spiritual community of history and cultural idea. They are, so to speak, stratified. Beneath is the strong primitive beat of the cosmic rhythm in a particular stock. Above is the molding, creating, driving destiny of a high culture. When Charles of Anjou beheaded Corridan, the last Hoenstock, I always get this one here. Conradine, the last Hoenstaufen emperor. Conradine, the last Hohenstaffin Emperor in 1267 Germany, disappeared from Western history as a unit with political significance
Starting point is 05:38:59 for 500 years reappearing in the 18th century in the double form of Austria and Prussia. During these centuries, the high history of Europe was made by other powers mostly with their own blood. This meant that, in comparison with the vast expenditure of blood over the generations of the others, Germany was spared. To understand the significance of this fact, we must go back to the purely biological origin of races of Europe. Part 6.
Starting point is 05:39:34 The primeval population streams, which came out of the north of the Eurasiatic landmass from 2000 BC, right down to 1,000 AD and after, were probably of related stock. barbarians called the Cassites conquered the remains of the Babylonian culture about 1700 BC the next century northern barbarians called Hicksos by the Egyptians threw themselves at the ruins of the Egyptian
Starting point is 05:40:04 civilization and subjected it to their rule in India the Aryans also a northern barbaric horde conquered the Indian culture the populations which which appeared in Europe over the millennia Millennium and a half ending 1,000 AD under the various names. Franks, Angles, Goths, Saxons, Celts, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Belga...
Starting point is 05:40:31 Is that Belge? Yep, you got it. Norsemen, Northmen, Vikings, Danes, Varangians, Germani, Alamani, Toutons, and other names are all of similar stock. it is very probable that the conquerors of the older civilizations eastward were of similar stock with the Western barbarians who threatened Rome for centuries and finally sacked it. The great sign of this stock was blondeness. Wherever today, blonde traits are found, elements of this northern stock have at least some
Starting point is 05:41:05 past time found their way. These northern barbarians conquered the... So, yeah, so this is something... What Yaqui is describing here, he says, describing, of course, the Indo-European migrations, which occurred a couple of thousand years before the birth of Christ, and he hits on something very insightful, is that it's very likely that there were earlier invaders who founded more eastern high cultures. For example, there's, I think, a significant amount of evidence that the Yellow Emperor who founded China,
Starting point is 05:41:37 as we understand it, was blonde. Like, that was one of the, that was the reason he was called the Yellow Emperor. Um, you know, it's the same thing with the area. in any although that was much later but like you know yaki is just describing and once again this is because he a lot of these archaeological findings did not occur until much later but they served to even further vindicate yaki rather than rather than contradict him because the yam naya what are called the yam naya migrations or the indo-aryan migrations are actually one of the more recent ones prior to them there was the celtic migrations which were of the exact same stock, even though they had red hair.
Starting point is 05:42:20 Prior to them, there were even earlier migrations of this same group of people as early as very possibly 8,000 BC. Some say even earlier than that. What Yaqui is describing here is that it's like every high
Starting point is 05:42:36 culture that comes into being on earth very likely comes from some related stock of these sorts of people. It certainly seems, though, when you really start examining this and nailing this down from everything that I've been reading lately. These northern barbarians conquered the indigenous populations of all Europe, constituting themselves in upper stratum, supplying the leadership, fighting men and laws wherever they went. Thus, they represented the ruling stratum and the territories now known as Spain,
Starting point is 05:43:16 Italy, France, Germany, England. Their numerical proportion was greater in some places than in others, and with the rising of the Western culture, circa 1000 AD, it was on this strong-willed primitive stratum that the idea took hold. From having been the conqueror of fulfilled civilizations, this stock now was itself selected to fulfill the destiny of a high culture. That which distinguished this primitive biological population stream is its strong will. It is also this strong will, and not only the inner idea of the culture itself, that contributes to Western history the unique forcefulness of all its manifestations
Starting point is 05:44:02 in all directions of thought and action. Think of the Vikings in the gray dawn of our history, reaching America from Europe and their tiny ships. This is the sort of human material which contributed its blood to the Western races, peoples, and nations. It is to this treasure of being that the West owes its prowess on the battlefield and this fact is known all over the world
Starting point is 05:44:26 whether it is theoretically denied or not. Ask any general in any army whether he would rather have under his command a division of soldiers from Pomerania or a division of Negroes. Unhappily. Funny, fun fact on that. During World War II,
Starting point is 05:44:46 there was one infantry division that the United States Army fielded. The 92nd infantry division also called the Buffalo Soldiers. They fought in the Italian theater and they were the worst performing infantry division of all of the
Starting point is 05:45:01 infantry divisions in the European Theater of Operations. It was, and not just the European theater, but the entire, in both theaters. they were just that bad no comment unhappily for the west the Russian populations contain also a strong
Starting point is 05:45:21 strain of this northern barbarian stock it is not in the service of a high culture but stands to us as did the Gauls to Republican and Imperial Rome race is material for events and it is available to the will to the will to annihilate as freely as it is the will to create.
Starting point is 05:45:42 The northern barbarian stock in Russia is still barbarian, and its negative mission has given it its own racial stamp. History has created a Russian race, which is steadily widening its racial boundaries by taking up into it and impressing with its historical mission of destruction, the population streams of its vast territory. And the hierarchy of races based on will to power, the new Russian race stands high. This race needs no moralistic propaganda to fan its militancy. Its barbarian instincts are there and can be relied on by its leaders.
Starting point is 05:46:21 Because of the fluid nature of race, even the hierarchy of races based on will to power cannot succeed in ordering all races now existing. For instance, would the Sikh stand above the Sengalese or below the American Negroes above or below the Imara Indians. But the whole purpose of understanding the varying degrees of will to power in different races is a practical one and applies in the first instance to our own Western civilization. Can this knowledge be used? The answer is that not only it can, but it must be if the West is to live out its lifespan and not pass and not to pass into slavery to Asiatic annihilation hordes under the leadership of Russia, Japan, or some other militant race.
Starting point is 05:47:15 Before this information can be applied with full insight and with no danger of old-fashioned misunderstanding, the subjective meaning of race must be examined and beyond its ideas connoted by terms, by the terms, people, nation, and state. Thus ends the chapter. I wasn't commenting so much there at the end because there wasn't much I could say beyond what he was saying. Like, you know, I guess I could just restate it. Yaki is essentially describing here is that the, you know, when he uses the word history a lot, I think the proper way for the audience to understand history is something that Thomas once told me,
Starting point is 05:48:03 was that history is the cunning of God's reason, you know, history is, is basically, you know, if you want to see how smart God is, you just go study history, right? And then that gives you a thousand examples of how just intelligent God is. And you only, like, start to scratch the surface. And so it's like, how could a group of 100 essentially bandits from this, you know, You know, barbarian warlord kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula conquer an empire of millions twice. You know, how could that happen? How could the British Empire hold India as a stable populace underneath their rule with 65,000 soldiers?
Starting point is 05:48:53 You know, how could all of this occur? All of this occurs simply because history demanded it for the continual writing of the story. you know and because it's it's it's it's it's it's it worked because essentially god just said yeah this is how it's going to happen for a little while and i'm going to give these people the gifts necessary um through whatever earthly means those gifts are endowed upon people in order to achieve this kind of this kind of high cultural status you know in yawki outlines how how there were sort of different phases of Western high culture and different branches
Starting point is 05:49:36 of the Western high culture tree had prominence at different times. In the early, early days, it was the Germanic medieval Holy Roman Empire, which Spain then fulfilled. Then you had the Italians as the antithesis, the French as the antithesis, you know, and the English with their ideas and in essence and all the way up until the Germans in the 20th century is that it's like different branches of this same sort of tree all had primacy at different periods and shaped kind of the path and I guess filters of Western high culture during their period of primacy. and then they passed away and another branch took over
Starting point is 05:50:24 and it kept going like that. So, I mean, but like, other than that, it's like, and Yaki's essentially saying, and one of the things Yaki talks about in other chapters is the idea of culture distortion. All right. That is the big thing Yaki adds to the kind of this Bangalarian Toynbiite thesis
Starting point is 05:50:43 of high cultural cycles is that, hey, a high culture doesn't have to either, you know, mummify, or collapse in fiery death, it could actually get like a viral pathogen that kind of start, that starts basically giving it amnesia, that starts sapping very slowly or very quickly the historical self-definition of that culture in much the same way that a virus hijacks healthy cells and turns them into virus factories. You know, that's, that's kind of what Yaqui is talking about here. And he's basically saying is that the understanding,
Starting point is 05:51:21 of this must be used because basically if the West continues falling to this sort of cultural pathogen, the barbarian peoples, which he exemplifies as Russia, the Japanese, the Chinese, the various Oriental peoples will basically place
Starting point is 05:51:37 will basically place the Western European peoples under total slavery. Maybe one of these days, I know you informed me before we started recording that you're about to get a lot busier. and recordings could be, you know, more infrequent, but we'll probably have to be pretty careful about it,
Starting point is 05:52:01 but read his section on culture distortion because that's when you can really paints a picture that if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you know basically you'll understand what happened in the last 80 years. If you put it on Odyssey, we can talk freely about it. Well, I don't put anything on YouTube anymore.
Starting point is 05:52:29 So I put like a 30 second clip and then I put Odyssey links and Odyssey Rumble and Bitchute links. Rumble, it could get even spicy for Rumble. But yeah, that would, hopefully it would open people's eyes. Because once you read that section, you pretty much have an idea.
Starting point is 05:52:51 And I think what's very interesting about this section right here is he's writing this in 48. And by 54 and 55, he's basically saying he chooses Russia over the United States. Which is... Well, you know, he... He did say that. And that's a point of disagreement. I have with, that's a point of disagreement I have with him.
Starting point is 05:53:26 I understand why he says it. And in addition, he says that generally in pamphlets he was writing to, he wasn't writing originally in English. He was writing them in German to, you know, Third Reich survivors. That's the same thing with the enemies of Europe too.
Starting point is 05:53:46 Like, you have to understand it's like, Imperium was a book he wrote originally in English for an Anglo-American audience. the enemy of Europe and other later publications he wrote in German for a basically Reich exile audience and German resistance audience. And so he takes different tones because Yaki knew how to shoot. He made propaganda for Gamal al-Nasir. Like he knows how to switch the tone based upon who he's writing to. But I do believe that Yaki did not, like him and H. Keith Thompson had similar opinions.
Starting point is 05:54:21 of how the United States is basically just totally, it's totally like done, it's washed out, there's no other option, it's compromised. And maybe it's because I think they didn't look at it or think about it within their own system that whenever a high culture's, this is something Yaki says elsewhere in the book, whenever a high culture's populace is hollowed out,
Starting point is 05:54:45 if like someone tries to kill all of it, you know, within a generation or two, it's back because history demands it to be present. And so it will simply just create new individuals to take up that mantle. And I think that's happening in the United States right now. You are starting to see, you know, just the shift in the culture. You are starting to see, I, you know, Yaki talks a lot about the culture-bearing stratum. This is generally the, these are the group of people of race who possess race.
Starting point is 05:55:12 When Yaki talks about race, he doesn't talk about it as a trait that that you are born with, but rather a trait you possess by virtue. you have refinement of being a part of culture, of understanding culture, of living culture, you know, of being able to listen to a Bach piece and feel some kind of emotion from it and understand it in and understand it at the same time, you know, or reading a line from a novel and getting this amazing mental vista or looking at a piece of Rembrandt and understanding what Rembrandt was trying to say with it. That's what culture is, and you're starting to see that in the United States more and more.
Starting point is 05:55:58 And that's because I think quite simply the high culture of the West demands it to exist somewhere, and it's found that America is probably the only place that it will exist. And so America, you know, Yaki talks a lot about how the Western high culture has been a progression from the medieval Teutons to the Spaniards, to the French, to the French, to the English, to the Germans. And I believe that either the conclusion or the beginning or perhaps both will be with the Americans.
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Starting point is 06:00:11 You know, it's, it's like, you know, I like being the sort of, you know, Samhatch used to make the joke that he was the Warren Zevon of the, of the, you know, Rebel Yell podcast. And I like to think I'm kind of like your, you're Warren Zevon of the Pete Kenyona show. You can always just call me to talk about more Yaqui. And I'll always, I'll always be there. Oh, yeah. Well, we're going to get into a section of Imperium today that's inside a cultural parasitism.
Starting point is 06:00:42 But before we go, and I think this is a good way to start, and I know you can do this, it won't take you too long to do this. Can you explain to everybody before we get into this the difference when the Yaki talks about culture and talks about nation, the difference between those two? Yeah, so when Yaki uses the word culture, he's generally referring within the Spengal Larian context to the sort of high cultural civilization, which is more of a metaphysical thing. It's like it's a spirit that manifests itself. When he's talking about the nation, he's using it in the sort of, in the Greek word, ethnos sense.
Starting point is 06:01:20 That's kind of what he's referring to. So it's sort of like the higher ideal form of the of the civilization itself, the sort of the form of being. And then the nation is the genetic stock that makes that up. All right. All right. Let me get into this. Let's start sharing this.
Starting point is 06:01:38 And of course, this is such a weird. It is not sharing directly. All right. There we go. Enough of my complaining. All right. Stop me whenever. I think we said before we started this, we're going to, this is six sections.
Starting point is 06:01:52 And we're going to work on getting three knocked out today and look at three in the future. So. Two for the price of one. Yeah. It's from Yaki's Imperium on the section of culture of parasitism. In the chapter on The Outlook on Politics, the condition in which persons thinking privately affect public affairs was called Parasite Politics. The example was given of Lady Pompidou, throwing France into a war against the great
Starting point is 06:02:19 Frederick because he had dubbed her with an uncomplimentary name before all Europe. In this war, France lost its overseas empire to England because it was fighting in Europe and devoting less effort to the great imperial war than to the local European war. This is the usual results of parasite politics. I'm going to stop you after this first paragraph because this central thesis is the most important idea throughout this entire section. All right, this is Yaqui basically in essence describing what he means by culture parasitism and what that is is you are using the state, you are using public,
Starting point is 06:03:01 sort of enemies, public issues, public political issues, as a stick to resolve your own private bullshit, which is out of whack. It is totally out of order. As a matter of fact, it's kind of, you know, in a properly ordered, you had a Mahler and Woe on recently. I love their podcast. They talk a lot about headship and a properly ordered civilization. In a properly ordered civilization, private affairs are always put to the side, are always subsumed whenever public affairs come about. Whenever you have the reverse, that is a very confused and a very, let's just say it's a compromised political system. And he gives the example of France in the middle of the 18th century. The seven years war essentially killed France as a world defining great power and ensure that instead of France, England, would
Starting point is 06:03:56 be the world defining great power. And I mean, of course, history only ever goes one way. There's only ever one line to history. But, you know, this was caused by Lady Pompadou essentially influencing the court with her petty envious BS. And this is, this is what Yaki is talking about when he talks about culture parasitism is certain sections within any given state using their private resentments or was it using the state and the functions of power to resolve their private resentments instead of
Starting point is 06:04:30 for the good of what you would call the, I guess the commonwealth or the polity or the whole, which is what everyone is thinking of in any well-ordered society. You have any thoughts on that, Pete? No, that's great. That's great. Yeah, this is we clearly seen today. And I think anyone who's been noticing what's going on probably has an idea where this is headed. Yeah.
Starting point is 06:04:53 So, a nation is an idea, but it is a mere part of the greater idea of the culture, which creates it in the process of its own actualization. But precisely as a nation can be the host to groups and powerful individuals who think in complete independence of the fulfillment of the national idea, so can a culture. Everyone is familiar with parasite politics in a nation, and everyone understands it when he becomes aware of it. when the Greek Cappadostria was, was it Cepidistria? Capadistria, I think so. Was secretary for foreign affairs in Russia, he was not expected to execute an anti-Greek policy. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, no Western power thought of giving a command to a Chinese general. In the American War against Japan, 1941 through 45, the Americans did not use their Japanese conscripts,
Starting point is 06:05:51 just as Europe discovered in the first two world. Wars that it could not use Slavic bohemians against Russia. American generals would not dare to use their Mexicans against Mexico or their Negroes against Abyssinia, nor in a period of war preparation against Russia would a known Russian sympathizer be given public power in America, much less would Americans turn over the entire government to known Russian immigrants. Okay. I know we're only like three paragraphs in, Pete, but this is one of those that, like, there's just so many ideas. That specific line there, when the Greek capodistria was Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Russia, he was not expected to execute an anti-Greek policy in the absolute insanity world we live in now.
Starting point is 06:06:40 The United States sort of, at least the United States government, sort of expects foreign powers to, like, at least pretend to be against their own. own interests or not even not outright say it but like basically pretend that their country's best interests are whatever the United States wants like not only are you supposed to play ball with the United States and give us what you want you actually have to pretend that what we want is actually the best thing for you too which is insane um and it's you know it's one of the you know there's the famous Thomas you know Thomas saying about America forcing you to negotiate with Hillary Clinton in a pantsuit like, you know, Caligula forcing you to salute his horse.
Starting point is 06:07:26 That is why so many people have so much resentment towards the United States. And the thing is, is it's not, it's, once again, it's not the people. It's the fact that our government is overrun. And it didn't used to be this way. Even in the Cold War, it didn't used to be this way. This is a new development. Um, like, you know, when, when Kissinger was running the White House, he didn't, he didn't pull stuff like this, you know, back when the WASP establishment was in, they weren't doing stuff like this. They understood realpolitik. This is new. This is ever since I think like the 19, you know, nine, I think since the Soviet Union fell, this is what's been the case. But anyway, keep going, Pete. Yeah, I think since the Soviet Union fell, it's just a totally new paradigm. Um, famously Pat Buchanan was like, okay, time to take. care of America, build our economy. Let's be that light to the world. Let's be the strength in the
Starting point is 06:08:23 world. Let's not be, let's not be the police of the world. And they just went from one enemy to the next. They went from the Soviet to Islam. Yeah. All right. A phenomenon of this type reflect the general fact that a man and group remains what it is, even though taken into another group unless assimilated. Assimulation is the demise of a group qua group. The bloodstream of the individuals comprising it continues, but the group is gone. As long as it was a group, it was foreign. You know, I'm going to just throw in a quick example of that. That's how the, you know, people talk about all the tribes of Israel. The tribe of Judah was just one tribe. There was the northern tribes and then like the tribe of Judah and the kingdom of Judah.
Starting point is 06:09:15 Um, that's how the Assyrians basically exterminated. I think, um, it was, it was 10 tribes. It was the 10 northern tribes. Yeah, that's how they basically ended all of them was they picked up some of them and put them elsewhere. And they brought in foreign peoples and mixed their bloodlines and created the Samaritans. The, the Samaritans were a holy novel people. Um, and that's why the tribe of Judah looked down on them at the time of Christ is because the Samaritans were essentially mudbloods, um, mixed-lift people from deeper within the Assyrian Empire. Right. In our examination of race, we saw that physical differences are no barrier to assimilation, but that a cultural barrier is. Examples are the Baltic Germans and the Volga Germans cut off in primitive Russia, Chinese and Japanese in America, Negroes in America and in South Africa, the British in India,
Starting point is 06:10:09 the Persis in India, the Jews in the Western civilization, and in Russia, the Hindus in Natal. cultural parasitism arises in the same way that parasitism arises in politics a parasite is simply a life form which lives in or on the body of another life form at its expense it involves thus the direction of the part of the energy of the host into a direction alien to its interest this is quite inevitable if the energy of an organism is being spent for something other than its own development it is being wasted Parasitism is inevitably harmful to the host. The host increases in proportion to the growth and spread of the parasite. Well, what's a virus, Pete? You know, a virus is not a living thing. It's essentially a line of corrupted code.
Starting point is 06:11:02 And what it does is it hijacks cells within your body and changes them by rewriting their code and turns them into virus factories. It's this exact same thing here. A virus is a parasite. And it's to your own detriment. any group which takes no part in the culture feeling but which lives within the culture body necessarily involves a loss to the culture such groups form areas of anesthetic tissue as it were in the culture body such a group by standing outside the historical necessity the destiny of the culture inevitably militates against that destiny this phenomenon is in no way dependent on human will The parasite is spiritually without, but physically within. The effects on the host organism are deleterious, both physically and spiritually. The first physical effect of non-participating groups within the body of a culture
Starting point is 06:12:01 is that the numbers of the culture population are thereby reduced. The members of the alien group take the place of individuals belonging to the culture who thus never come to be born. It reduces artificially the numbers of the culture populations by the numbers of the parasitic group. In animal and human parasitism, one of the numerous effects on the host is the loss of nourishment
Starting point is 06:12:29 and cultural parasitism is analogous. By reducing the number of culture individuals, a culture parasite is depriving the cultural idea of the only form of physical nourishment it needs. A constant supply of human material adequate to its life task. This is, I think one of the best ways to describe what he's talking about. You know the saying you can take the boy out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the boy?
Starting point is 06:12:57 I know that for a while. Yeah. Yeah, you can take a bunch of Indians and put him in South Africa, but they're still going to like turn South Africa into like a corner of India because that's their coding. That's what they are. That's what they do. It doesn't matter. like magic dirt is not a real thing human beings are possessed by larger culture forms which
Starting point is 06:13:18 their genetics are also possessed by in service of because when God created the races he created them with different ways of doing things and that's inherent to them they you know and that's why and there's levels to this but basically you know when when yaki is talking about when something is parasitized, right? There is finite resources. There is a carrying capacity of populations within a certain area, all right? When the United States brought in all of the immigrants of the world, that ended the world, that ended sort of the world of the 20, of the 1910s, this brilliant age.
Starting point is 06:13:58 If you just look at the photographs, everyone looks like they're super fit. Everyone was basically 140 IQ, it seems, all of this other stuff. that ended once mass immigration started because these other groups, while some of them, some of them were a lot closer to the cultural idea of the United States and were of a similar enough genetic stock that they could somewhat change themselves. And the United States was blessed to basically be almost entirely
Starting point is 06:14:28 northwest European Protestants, which if you take a bunch of Swedes and put them in England, they're going to do fine. If you take a bunch of Germans and put them in like Holland, they're going to be fine, you know, if you take a bunch of like Dutchmen and put them in the United States, they're going to be fine.
Starting point is 06:14:44 These are not foreign cultural ideas to each other. There's slight variations. However, you can tweak those variations. It's within the same sort of, you know, range, if that makes sense to you, Mr. Pete. But if you take a bunch of, let's say, you know, and even the meds to a certain extent, you could, you could say they're on the borderline,
Starting point is 06:15:07 but even the meds to a certain extent could do this. Not to the same degree as a Northwest European, but to a certain extent they could. This is just a matter of how much they can. If you take someone from the East, if you take a bunch of Slavs, they can't. They don't do it the same way. They're still weird.
Starting point is 06:15:26 They're still wacky. You know, if you take a bunch of Chinamen, you know, the United States, the only law banning a specific ethnicity in the United States ever was the Chinese exclusionary acts. They were the only ethnicity ever specifically banned from entering the United States. And we passed two of them. We did two of them.
Starting point is 06:15:45 And so what Yaki is saying by this is that by them taking up this physical space geographically within this sort of area, by them doing that, they prevent life forms. What was it? They prevent like people who would have been of the native culture from being born in the first place. This is like, for example, DEI and certain slots being taken away from those who are not as materially wealthy within universities have prevented very smart and intelligent young guys who are old stock Americans from getting the education that could develop their intelligence that could make them into whatever it was that they could have then done to contribute to the culture. this is what cultural parasitism is. It replaces them with, you know, it replaces them with just, with just foreign, foreign entities who don't, aren't a part of the same cultural mission. They have their own cultural mission coded within them, and they're just advancing it and just absorbing as much materially that they can
Starting point is 06:16:55 to advance their own cultural mission. And so that's what the Yaki is talking about here, is it's basically you're giving ground that is then being turned against you and used against you. well he's going to get he's going to expound upon it a little more even more here it is only in the light of recent studies of population trends that this anti-reproductive effect of immigrating groups is established thus from comparative study of american population trends it emerged that the 40 million immigrants to america from other continents from 1790 up to now did not serve to increase the population of america at all but only to change the quality of it a superperson idea, clothed as it is with the force of destiny, must fulfill its life task, its life task, and if this involves populations of a certain size, increasing at a certain rate, these externals will come into existence.
Starting point is 06:17:53 Materialism found itself with the data of population trends on its hands, but no explanation for them. These data showed for the Western nations gradual increases rising rapidly to a peak, and then a stabilizing and slow falling off. The curve that describes the population movements of nations, it is the same curve, roughly speaking in each case, will be found also to describe the population movement of a high culture. At the stage where a high culture passes over into civilization, the stage marked for us by Napoleon,
Starting point is 06:18:25 the increase of numbers is rapid and rises to figures which dwarf anything previous. The same spirit of the age which externalized the whole, of the culture into massive industrialism and techniques, great revolutions, gigantic wars, and unlimited imperialism also called these numbers into being. The life task of the Western civilization is the mightiest the world has ever seen, and it needs these numbers in order to accomplish it. Culturally parasitical groups are not available to the idea. They use the energy of the culture inwards and downwards. Such groups constitute
Starting point is 06:19:06 weak spots in the body of the culture. The danger of this internal weakness increases in direct proportion as the culture is threatened from without. In the 16th century, when the existence of the West was threatened by the Turks, it would have been perfectly evident to every Westerner that large inner groups of Turks, had there been such, were a serious menace. A second way that culture parasitism wastes the substance of the culture is through the inner friction that their presence necessarily creates in the body of the arabian culture around
Starting point is 06:19:38 the time of christ a large number of romans was present their cultural stage was that of a late civilization complete externalization and the cultural stage of the aramean population which was there at home was that of their earliest cult of of the earliest culture the tension which naturally engendered Racial, national, and cultural finally culminated in the massacre in 88 BC of 80,000 Romans. This brought on the Mithradatic wars in which more hundreds of thousands perished in 22 years of fighting. Another phenomenon closer to our times is that of the Chinese in California. The racial tension between the white and Chinese populations there during the 19th and 20th century resulted in mutual persecution. hatred, riots, and bloody excesses.
Starting point is 06:20:33 The Negro population in both America and South Africa has been occasion of similar outbreaks of hatred and violence on both sides. All these incidents are manifestations of culture parasitism, the presence of a group which is outside the culture totally. These phenomena have no connection whatever as the analytic approach to rationalism thought with hatred or malice on either side. rationalism always looks downward.
Starting point is 06:21:02 It saw merely a group of individuals on both sides. If these individuals were massacring one another, it was a desire of these particular individuals at the particular time to kill one another. Rationalism didn't understand even the simple organic phenomena of a crowd, much less the higher forms of people, race, nation, culture. It never occurred to the liberals that since these tensions throughout 5,000 years of history had always manifested themselves thus,
Starting point is 06:21:29 that there was any necessity at work. Liberals could not understand instinct, cosmic rhythm, racial beat. To them, a race riot was a manifestation of lack of education of tolerance. A bird flying over a street disturbance would understand it better than the materialists, for they voluntarily adopted the viewpoint of the earthworm
Starting point is 06:21:52 and held it with determination. So far from these excesses being the result of malice and hatred, The contrary is true. Demonstrations of goodwill and tolerance actually increase the tension between totally alien groups and render it more deadly. Focusing attention on the differences between utterly alien groups works these differences up into contrasts and hastens outbreaks.
Starting point is 06:22:19 The closer the two groups are brought into contact, the more insidious and dangerous grows the mutual hatred. Theoretically, it sounds perfect to see. say that if each individual is educated to tolerance, there can be no racial or cultural tension. But individuals are not the units of this type of happening. Individuals do not bring these things about. Higher organic unities do this and impel the mere individuals. The process has nothing to do with consciousness, intellect, will, or even emotions in its inception. All these come into play only as a manifestation of defense on the part of the culture against the alien
Starting point is 06:22:59 life form. Hatred does not begin the process, nor does tolerance stop it. This sort of talk is applying the logic of the billiard table to super personal organisms, but the logic is out of place here. Life is irrational, and so is every one of its manifestations, birth, growth, illness, resistance, self-expression, destiny, history, death. If we wish to keep the word logic, we must distinguish inorganic logic from organic logic. Inorganic logic is causality thinking, organic logic is destiny thinking.
Starting point is 06:23:36 The first is aware, illuminated, conscious. The second is rhythmic and unconscious. The first is the laboratory logic of physical experimentation. The second is the living logic of the human beings who carry on this activity and who are in no way amenable in their lives to the logic which they apply in their workshops. So I let you go through pretty much the rest of that chapter there because those examples and those points I've been bringing up, Yaki essentially he hits on all of them throughout that. He further elaborates all this stuff that we're kind of hitting on as well.
Starting point is 06:24:15 What Yaki means in the sense of, you know, just to kind of refresh the viewer, he's using the Spanglerian framework. his destiny he's not talking about you know like he's not talking about um i guess you could say this sort of calvinistic line of existence that's not necessarily what he's talking about what he means by destiny is the spanglerian way of saying it which is you know the destiny of a sapling is to become a tree it is assuming the natural progression of someone or something's life if uninterrupted by outside events those outside events are called incident within the Spanglerian framework necessarily.
Starting point is 06:24:56 In addition, when he separates in that last paragraph between organic and inorganic logic, with inorganic logic, that's sort of Anglo-impericism, that which you can replicate, that which basically you're completely, you know, there's no, I always get these confused, Pete. deductive reasoning is when you assume nothing right deductive is when you're deducing something yeah you're just looking at the
Starting point is 06:25:28 you're just looking at the evidence yeah you're just looking at the facts there's no like you're not trying to prove anything a priori all right and that's you know that's anglo empiricism that's kind of the that's there's no like and the problem with that worldview is that you know it just removes any application. You're just basically writing things.
Starting point is 06:25:51 You know, and you're not like putting them together in such a way as to achieve as to achieve evidence as to achieve an argument one way or another. An argument is inductive reasoning. You assume the argument is true
Starting point is 06:26:07 and then look for evidence to prove it. All right. That's natural. That's how almost everyone does everything. You assume something to be true and then look for evidence to either prove or disprove it. All right. You don't just find evidence in a vacuum. And that's why, you know, that's why, you know, those of us on the, on the right, we have a much more instinctual understanding of politics and nations and things
Starting point is 06:26:33 like that because we just take existence for granted. We take creation for granted. You know, in many ways, we trust that it's a real thing more. The leftists in many ways, this is why transhumanism is so popular over there is they think in this very sort of gnaustic sense of nothing is real you can't trust anything which is actually a very insecure point of weakness um and yaki's going to touch on a little bit of this uh further on but you know but this is like you know this is what when when we talk about vibe shifts pete right you know how sometimes on the timeline the timeline just has a certain theme of the day for whatever reason um or like certain news stories stories comes out or just certain
Starting point is 06:27:18 topics are being talked about today for some reason or you just see or feel like hey there's like the air like the death of the death of Floyd you know the overdose of Floyd that was a fucking like people talk about how that was the moment reality shattered
Starting point is 06:27:34 um that's that was a huge vibe shift um musk's Twitter massive vibe shift yeah um imagine how crazy it is, Pete, that Twitter is the current, most important arena of the culture form.
Starting point is 06:27:55 Yeah. I'm saying this all the time. I'm saying that you used to say that Twitter isn't real life. And maybe it's not real life in your personal life, your day-to-day life, but in your political life, Twitter is real life. And if you don't have some sort of following or if you're, or if you don't have a following, if you're not a part of some. sort of network, then you have no influence, you know? Twitter is, basically, it's where the
Starting point is 06:28:22 policy of the future will be decided. And it's actually, I think it's a good thing because it's forcing people to live a lot more historically than they have been when mass media basically took away all agency. But yeah, anyway, we can keep going into section two. Sure. All right. Section two. The most tragic example of culture parasitone, for the West has been the presence of a part of a nation from the Arabian culture scattered through the entire body of the West. We have already seen the entirely different content of the nation idea in that other culture, nations that were state, church, and people all in one. The idea of a territorial home was unknown. Home was wherever the believers were. Belonger
Starting point is 06:29:07 and believer were interchangeable ideas. This culture had attained to it its late civilization phase while our Gothic West was barely emerging from the primitive. You see this in the South where you come upon a church and then either next to the church or behind the church is a cemetery. And people who go to church on Sunday look over at that cemetery and they're like, my relatives are buried there. They have an idea of that, my family is not only tied to this land right here, but also our faith is tied to it because this is where they rest.
Starting point is 06:29:53 And that's something that that's, that's living historically and that's lost to most people at this point. I'm sure you would agree, right, Paul? Yeah, and that's not a, that's not a refutation of, what is it, when Yaqui himself, as far as I know, he was raised Catholic. I don't believe he was practicing. I don't know if he was a Christian. he does he has a very good familiarity with the Bible quotes it um i'm not sure about the state of his personal faith life and if he was an atheist um you can kind of basically say everyone in this time the 20th century is the most atheistic century in human history um and essentially
Starting point is 06:30:29 what yaki is grasping at it in imperium is christendom he's trying to recreate christendom with with different stuff basically um that's the that's the spoiler of all of imperium is Jackie essentially just wants christened them back. And I think that's a good thing to want back. I want that back, you know. But yeah, you are right. The Western expression of Christianity, you talk about the church yard and the cemetery next to the church. Yeah, that's a lot different from, you know, from even, I mean, he talks about the Magian culture.
Starting point is 06:31:04 When he says Arabian, he's talking about the Magians where Christianity came from. just because Christianity, you know, Christ came during that period within Yaki's framework doesn't refute the eternal truth of the Christian religion. As a matter of fact, it reinforces it. The fact that this religion, that the statements of this faith can cross high cultural forms is actually one of the best proofs to its eternal truth, is that it is entirely independent of cultures, of culture beings. It can continue its existence in an authentic form.
Starting point is 06:31:39 in all of them. And you see this with how the West adopted Christianity. They maintained its central truth claims, but they executed those central truth claims in the way that they understood how to. In the Magian culture, they did not place an emphasis on burying bodies. This is largely because they lived in a fucking desert.
Starting point is 06:31:59 They did have bone yards. There were places that they would bury people, but for the most part, they would practice crematorial. um you know they would practice crematorial uh what is it um what's the word for disposing of body of crematorial funerary rights um correct me if i'm wrong pete um you know the bible better than i do but right before right at the end of the book of what's the book right before the book of joshua when moses dies um that well
Starting point is 06:32:37 Deuteronomy. Okay, yeah. Right at the end of Deuteronomy, when Moses dies, they burn him. They don't bury him. They burn his body. And that was the common right. While we have cremation in the West, it's kind of, we don't consider it normal. It's kind of like what's normal, what we all imagine when we all die in the Western sense is we get buried and there's a gravestone.
Starting point is 06:33:02 Right. That's the Western expression of funerary rights. That plays into a lot of different things. Anyway, we've kind of gotten on this. We can keep going now. Sure. Into the tiny hamlets, there were no cities of the Awakening West. These finished cosmopolitans built their ghettos.
Starting point is 06:33:19 Money thinking, which seemed evil to the deeply religious West, was the forte of this highly civilized alien people. Interest taking was forbidden by the church to Christians, and this conferred a monopoly of money on the strangers. The Juvengasa was a millennium ahead in cultural. development of its surroundings and that just it translates literally into Jew Alley and just basically ghetto. The legend of the wandering Jew arose at this time, expressing the feeling of uncanniness
Starting point is 06:33:54 that the Westerner felt in the presence of this landless stranger who was everywhere at home, although it seemed to the West that he was nowhere at home. The West understood as little of his Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, Kabbalism, and Yassita as he of its Christianity and scholastic philosophy. The mutual inability to understand generated feelings of alienness, fear, and hatred. I will disagree with one thing Yaki said. The West did understand the Torah. If the Torah as referring to the Pentateuch and the Old Testament books, the West actually did understand. that many theologians that particularly specialized in that area the hatred of the west
Starting point is 06:34:41 the hatred of the westerner for the jew was of religious motivation not racial the jew was the heathen and with his civilized and intellectualized life he seemed mephistophelian satanic to the westerner the chronicles of that time record the horrors which the contact of these two utterly alien groups begot. Jews were massacred in London on the day of coronation of Richard I in 1889. The next year, 500 Jews were besieged in New York Castle by a mob and to avoid its fury resorted to cutting each other's throats. King John had Jews imprisoned, their eyes or teeth plucked out, and hundreds butchered in 1204. When a Jew in London forced a Christian to pay him more than two, I think that would be shekels.
Starting point is 06:35:31 A week, not shekels, it would be two, what is, what is the British? Yeah, yeah, a week on a loan of 20, mob action killed 700 Jews. Crusaders for centuries massacred whole Jewish populations of towns when they stopped on their way to the wars in Asia Minor. In 1278, 267 Jews were hanged in London accused of clipping coins. The outbreak in 1348 of the Black Death was attributed to the Jews, and massacres were the results all over Europe. For 370 years, the Jews were banished from England until re-emitted by Cromwell. Although the motivation of these accesses was not racial, it was race-creating.
Starting point is 06:36:17 What did not destroy the Jews made them stronger and separated them further than ever from the host peoples physically and spiritually. During the centuries of our Western history, the problems and developments which roused fundamental excitement in the West did not touch the problem of Jew, whose inner life was passed into fixity with the completion of the culture which created this Jewish church state people nation. Empty for him were the conflict of empire and papacy, the Reformation, the Age of Discovery. He looked upon them purely as a spectator. His only question was what they might mean to him. The idea of his taking part in them, or making sacrifice for one side or another, never came up. The British and India looked upon disturbances among the indigenous populations with the same eye. In his ghettos distributed over Europe, all was uniform, the food prohibitions, the Talmudic dualistic ethics, one for the goyem and another for the Jew, the legal system, the runes, the philactories, the ritual, the feeling, his Sufism, his accedoism, his accedo,
Starting point is 06:37:27 sect, his Kabbalism, his religious leaders like Balchem, his Zadikism, are equally unintelligible to Westerners. Not only unintelligible, but uninteresting. The Westerner was absorbed in the intense conflicts of his own culture and did not observe, except in relation to himself, the life of the Jew in his midst. Not until the externalized fact-sensitive 20th century did the Western culture notice the Jew as a cultural phenomenon. in Gothic times until the Reformation, it saw him as a heathen and usurer, in the Council of Reformation as a shrewd businessman, in the Enlightenment as a civilized man of the world, in the age of rationalism, as a fighter in the van of intellectual liberation from
Starting point is 06:38:12 the bonds of the culture and its traditions. The 20th century, good. So real quick, kind of on this, what, when Yaqui says they were the product of a more complete culture, the problem with the Western, getting the Western mind to understand understand this pete is that the western mind is obsessed with techniques all right we are all obsessed with technology we think technology equals sophistication all right um and this is actually a large part of the reason why the you know this this particular group has been a problem um for as long as they have been and that's because they are they are essentially imagine if you took a bunch of
Starting point is 06:38:55 19 you know fucking 70s high finance New York wasps and then put them into I don't fucking know pre city state Rome all right they would probably act much the same way
Starting point is 06:39:15 and that's because they come from a really highly sophisticated time now they would probably act a little bit differently but you they are it's like taking it's they were essentially modern people that you put in a pre-modern context. And they didn't stop being modern people. They were, what is it?
Starting point is 06:39:34 They had all the hallmarks of a civilizational age of materialism. There was no real cultural mission for them other than continued existence. And that's the problem. Once the cultural mission is fulfilled, then this is why high cultures die. Once the cultural mission is fulfilled, once the cultural mission is fulfilled, filled, then it's only raison d'etra's continued existence and then it of course breaks apart
Starting point is 06:40:00 and is overwhelmed by another cultural group with a different cultural mission. The same will happen to the West one day. But, you know, this group of people did this, acted like this, but as the West got more sophisticated, not just in terms of
Starting point is 06:40:18 techniques, but also in terms of, what techniques are really just a matter of scale. That's the only thing techniques really decide is on what scale you can do something, the fundamentals. Once they reached the same sort of moral understanding of the world as the Jews did, this is actually why the sort of counter-revolutions of the 20th century occurred. And I think he'll talk about this a little bit later. Actually, Matt, yeah, he's going to talk about that in the next paragraph. Let's go. The 20th century saw for the first time that he had his own public life, his own world down to the
Starting point is 06:40:54 details. It realized that the comprehensiveness of his outlook was the equivalent of its own in breath and depth, and therefore alien in a total sense, which was never before suspected. In its previous centuries, the viewpoint of the West toward the Jew was limited by its stage of development at the time. But with the 20th century and its universal outlook, the entirety of what has been called the Jewish problem is seen for the first time. Not race, not religion, not ethics, not nationality, not political allegiance, but something which includes them all separates the Jew from the West. Culture embraces a totality of world outlook,
Starting point is 06:41:39 science, art, philosophy, religion, techniques, economics, erotic, law, society, politics. In every branch of the Western culture, the Jew has developed his own taste and preference, and when he intervenes in the public life of the Western peoples, he conducts himself in a distinct fashion, namely in the style of the public life of the Jewish church state nation people race. This public life was invisible to the inward west until the 20th century. Like all nations at the end of their civilization, the Hindus, Chinese, Arabs,
Starting point is 06:42:16 the Jewish nation passed into a caste system. The Brahmins in India, the Mandarin's indigenous, China, the rabbinette in Jewry are three corresponding phenomena. The rabbinette were the custodians of the destiny of the Jewish unity. When freethinkers appeared among the Jews, it was the duty of the local rabbinit to prevent a schism. In the case of Ariel de Costa, a freethinking Jew of Amsterdam, the local synagogue had him imprisoned and subjected him to such persecution that he finally took his own life. Spinoza was excommunicated by the same synagogue, and an unsuccessful attempt was made on his life.
Starting point is 06:42:59 Large bribes were offered him to return to Judaism, and when he refused, he was cursed and pronounced anathema. In 1799, the Hesitim leader in Eastern Jewry, Sr. Salman, was handed over by the rabbin to the Romanov government after a trial by his own people, much as the Western Inquisition turned over convicted heretics to the state for disposal. So I know we've got one last section left, but I want to kind of comment on this is that, you know, this is sort of essentially the rab and it keeps everyone else in line. The, what is it?
Starting point is 06:43:35 Most of the quote-unquote, like average, average Jews, if they were kind of taken outside of this rabbinic tradition and then just put within, you know, just entirely amongst Westerners, I guarantee you they, and this happens all the time. You could see instances of this happening all the time. They become, they get basically recruited because their soul is filled with a different cultural mission. And a lot of the time they have mixed in genetics from that same people that makes that even makes that yearning even stronger. And these people will cease to be Jews other than genetically. And even that kind of goes away after a while.
Starting point is 06:44:20 This happened in Nazi Germany, actually. A good example of this is Erhard Milch is, I think, what was it? Was it Rosenberg's first name? Alfred. Alfred Rosenberg, yeah. Like, both of those dudes had, you know, Jewish ancestry of a significant amount. And they essentially, they did not act like it. They essentially became, they were recruited into the Western mission because they were taken
Starting point is 06:44:47 out of that. And really, this is, this, this tells you about how dead of a culture this is, is that it's basically their rabbinit, or how do I say it, their rabbinate, keeping them all in line, you know, and this is why when we mentioned this before the show, when the disputation of, the Spanish figured this out early on, um, the disputation of Tortosa is actually the best way to kind of get rid of this group of people is you basically take their sort of rabin it and make them look like a bunch of fools in front of them. And they lose, because the power that they have over their own people is fear and, um, and ignorance and, um, basically the, the same power that the Pharisees had over them in the time of Christ is these people are holy because they say that are holy and we've raised you your whole life to believe they're holy. And, you know, it's hard to go against that kind of coding.
Starting point is 06:45:39 You know what I mean? Yep. No, 100%. Oh, all right. let's think we're just about got a couple more paragraphs here for part two. The contemporary West did not even see
Starting point is 06:45:52 these phenomena and would not have understood them if it had. It looked at everything Jewish with its own preconceptions, just as Jews looked at the West in terms of its advanced outlook. The Parsy in India is another fragment of the Arabian culture
Starting point is 06:46:08 strewn abroad among aliens. The Parcy possessed vis-à-vis his human surrounds the same superior business acumen as the Jew in the early West. His inner life was entirely apart from the aliens around him. His interests were different in every way. In the disturbances and revolts during the centuries of the British Raj, the Parsi took no part.
Starting point is 06:46:32 In the same way, the Thirty Years War, the Succession Wars, the conflict of Bourbon and Habsburg, did not in any way touch the Jew. Difference of culture phase creates complete spirit. spiritual insulation. The attitude of the Jew towards Western tensions was that of Pilate at the trial of Jesus. To pilot, the religious issue there involved was utterly hidden. He belonged to a civilization in its last phase, a thousand years away from the religious excitement of his own culture. With the stirrings of rationalism in the West, however, a Seyre is marked in this collective life of that part of Jewry cut off.
Starting point is 06:47:15 in the Western culture. Part 3. Around 1750, a new spiritual, new spiritual currents begin to move in the West. English sensualist philosophy assumes the ascendancy over the European soul. Reason, empiricism, analysis, induction, this is the new spirit. But everything becomes folly when examined in the light of reason, unleavened by faith and instinct. Erasmus had demonstrated in his malicious work in praise of folly that everything is folly, not only greed, ambition, pride, and war, but church, state, marriage, childbearing, and philosophy. The supremacy of reason is hostile to life and brings about a crisis in
Starting point is 06:47:59 any organism which succumbs to it. The culture crisis of rationalism was a part of the destiny of the West. All previous cultures have gone through it. It marked, the turning point from the inwardness of culture to the externalized soul life of civilization. The focal idea of rationalism is liberty, which means liberty from the bonds of culture. Napoleon liberated war from the style of Fontenoy, 1745, where each side courteously invited the other to fire the first shot. Beethoven liberated music from the form perfection of Bach and Mozart, The Terror of 93 liberated the West from the idea of the sacredness of dynasty. Materialistic philosophy liberated it from the spirit of religion,
Starting point is 06:48:49 and ultra-rationalism then proceeded to liberate science from philosophy. Waves of revolution liberated the civilization from the dignity of the state and its high traditions into the dirt of party politics. Class war was liberation from social order and hierarchy. The new idea of humanity and the rights of man liberated the culture from its old pride of exclusiveness and feeling of unconscious superiority. Feminism liberated woman from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.
Starting point is 06:49:22 So, Yaki, you know, when he's talking about the sort of the life of the culture here, the life cycle, the destiny of the culture, what happens is that there's this great rationalist crisis point where the civil, where the culture decides to sacrifice all of those things, which are its own unique expressions, which required a lot of form, a lot of resources, a lot of time, a lot of effort. People at this period lived and spent their whole lives learning how to properly carve something, you know, which is absolutely ludicrous to us today. That's thrown out in replacement of basically sort of anything goes moment. And this is why so many people point to the French Revolution is where at the point where everything went wrong. But that's because that's the natural life cycle of a civilization, something like the French Revolution always happens.
Starting point is 06:50:15 All right. Now, when the civilization reaches its point of Caesarism, you get to the point where there is a generation that kind of understood what was lost and attempts to recreate that earlier cultural period right at the end through the remaining, through basically the techniques, the mass scale of. of late civilization, and some of it, it's a sort of false recovery in a certain way, but it is, it does to those inhabitants who are living through it, it seems like it's a sort of silver age, if that makes sense to you, Mr. Pete. And this is what our, you know, if you're on the dissident right, listening to this, this is what your cultural mission is. This is what we're trying to do. Anacarsus Clutes organized a deputation of representatives of the human race,
Starting point is 06:51:08 presented its respects to the Revolutionary Terror in France. There were pigtailed Chinamen, black Ethiopians, Turks, Jews, Greeks, Tartars, Mongols, Indians, bearded Chaldeans. Actually, however, there were Parisians in disguise. This parade had thus at the very beginning of rationalism a double symbolic significance. First, it symbolized the idea of the West that it now wished to embrace all humanity, and secondly, the fact these were disguised Westerners showed the exact amount of success
Starting point is 06:51:42 that this intellectualizing enthusiasm would have. But killer line. Yeah. The Jew had, of course, seen these things coming. Persecution does not diminish intelligence and awareness of one's surroundings. As early as 1723, the Jews had acquired the right to possess land in England,
Starting point is 06:52:02 and in 1753, they acquired English citizenship, only to have it revoked the next year on the petition of all the cities. In 1791, they were emancipated in France, and in 1806, the great Sanhedron was summoned by the Emperor Napoleon, thus giving official recognition to the existence within the west of the Jewish nation-state people. Only one thing prevented the new situation from being as idyllic as the new liberal sentiment would have it. 800 years of robbery, hatred, massacre, and persecution on both sides had roused within the Jew
Starting point is 06:52:40 traditions of hatred of the West even stronger than the old Western hatred of the Jew. In its new outburst of generosity and forgiveness, the West renounced its old feelings, but the Jew was unable to reciprocate. 800 years of resentment were not to be removed by a New Year's resolution on the part of the alien West. Super personal organic unities were here opposed, and these higher unities do not share with human beings things like reason and sentiment. Their life task is hard and colossal and excludes feelings of tolerance except as a symptom of crisis. In a great battle of this kind, human beings are in the last analysis mere spectators, even though they play an active role. human malice and desire for revenge play only the smallest, most superficial part in such conflicts,
Starting point is 06:53:33 and when they appear, they are the mere expression in the individual of the higher incompatibility, deep and total, between the super-personal ideas. The new movements, capitalism, industrial revolution, democracy, materialism, all were tremendously exciting to the Jew. In the middle of the 18th century already, he had sensed their potentialities and had fostered their growth in every way. His position as the outsider forced him to act secretly, and the secret societies of the Illuminati and its offspring were his creations, as their Kabbalistic terminology and ritualistic equipment show. More than two-thirds of the Estates generals, which paved the way to the French Revolution in 1789, consisted of members of these secret societies, committed to undermine,
Starting point is 06:54:24 the authority of the state and introduced the idea of democracy. The Jew responded to the invitation of the West to participate in his public life, but it was impossible for him to lose his identity overnight, and so he had from now on two public lives, one before the West and one before his own nation-state people church race. With the crumbling of the old Western traditions before the onslaught of the new ideas, the Jew forged ahead. the Rothschilds became what would have been simply fantastic to both sides a century before, barons of the Austrian Empire in 1822. Jews penetrated the English bar in 1833, and a Jew was
Starting point is 06:55:05 netted by the Queen, the first one, in 1837. The West acceded to the duality of the Jew and a statute of Victoria relieved Jews elected to municipal office from taking oaths. Jewish members of Parliament appeared from the 40s onward, and a Jew became Lord Mayor of London in 1855. All of these things were resisted by traditionary elements of the West, and on each occasion, the Jew gained the triumph. The experiment of tolerance was visibly failing on both sides. The amount of power and importance of the Jew was gaining was shown by the incident of
Starting point is 06:55:46 the boy Martara. The child was forcibly taken from his Jewish parents, ordinary private persons by the Archbishop of Bologna in 1858 on the plea that he had been baptized by a serving maid. In the same year, the French government officially urged restoration of the boy to its parents. The next year, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops, nobleman, and gentlemen of England signed the petition presented by Lord John Russell asking a return of custody of the child. The persecution continued. There were outbreaks in Bucharest, 1866, Rome 1864, Berlin, 1880, Russia through the whole century and
Starting point is 06:56:29 into the 20th century. This persecution in Russia was an index of the strength of the Jew and the Western nations. Protest petitions, committees sought to alleviate the lot of the Jews in Russia and to obstruct the government of Russia. The pogrom in Ukraine after the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 caused the American government to break off diplomatic relations with Russia. And that's pretty interesting because I think most historians, even Jewish historians, would say the, the, the, the, when the Jews really started to come to America was about 1880. So in, in 25 years, they had gained enough clout with the American government to cause the American government to break off diplomatic relations with a country. with a country halfway around the world over an incident that happened locally
Starting point is 06:57:26 in a shitty little park. Well, and the other thing, too, is that it's like, look, this is kind of, this section right here, a lot of people like to lay at the feet of America, the unique evil of Zionism, but what this is showing right, or the wider Anglosphere, but what this is showing right here
Starting point is 06:57:46 is that this was a problem in the entirety of the West. you know America being a part of the West and extension of the West was no unique or no different all right and America being a colony people is always about a hundred years or so culturally behind um everywhere else
Starting point is 06:58:06 right we haven't even left the 20th century yet in America however what is it what is it this is also a good thing because the America is replaying the 20th century in real time like was it you know people people are comparing it every people call it viamerica for a reason but it's like look you know you can't make this up you know you can't make up how similar the same trajectory is
Starting point is 06:58:33 happening and everyone knows what the conclusion is like we've already turned to almost quasi normalizing mentioning this kind of stuff in public so you know as a matter of fact America not only is like uniquely at fault in many ways they're probably going to be the one redeeming force that ends this once and for all. I hope at least, Lord willing. I hope so too. Hatred or intolerance in no wise explains the numerous unfortunate results
Starting point is 06:59:03 attended upon the Jewish dispersion through the Western nations. The hatred on both sides was a mere result. The more tolerance was talked about, the more attention was focused on the differences, sharpening them into contrast. The contrast led to opposite. position and action, either covert or open, on both sides.
Starting point is 06:59:23 Nor is it an explanation to blame the Jew for failing to assimilate. This is blaming a man for being himself, and the notion of ethics does not extend to what one is, but only to what one does. The Jewish problem is not to be explained ethically, racially, nationally, religiously, socially, but only totally, culturally. From having seen at each phase only the aspect of the Jew which his own development permitted him to, Western man now sees the whole relationship for his own cultural unity
Starting point is 06:59:57 is uppermost in Western man. In Gothic times, he saw the Jew as different only in religion because the West was then in a religious phase. In the Enlightenment, with its ideas of humanity, the Jew was seen merely to be socially different. In the materialistic 19th century, with its vertical racism, the Jew was regarded as merely racially different. In this century, 20th century, with the West passing into a unit of culture, nation, race, society, economic state, the Jew appears clearly in his own total unity, a complete inner stranger to the soul of the West.
Starting point is 07:00:37 And so this is kind of like, this is what I mentioned earlier. Yaki kind of restates it here. we have only as of the last hundred years or so reached the level of societal development that the Jews have and for the first time in the entire history of them being parasites on our civilization in the sense of Ezaki defines it we are now at the same level of development as they are
Starting point is 07:01:08 we are right at the end point of, you know, where the West is now sort of, what is it, the West is its own cultural unity of culture, nation, race, society, economics, state. All right. Western culture, you know, is, is, is, and this is why I have such high hopes for America, Pete, is because America is the Western unity um america is sort of the the culmination and in addition on top of that i also believe it's serving as the fertile ground for a new high culture which will be completely different from the west um i have no idea what it will be yet but you know i think it will be something entirely different from the west um but i don't know pete i mean we've we're going to come back to a part two
Starting point is 07:02:05 but this is kind of this is kind of a good way to I guess this is a good way to sort of you know for the for the listener to have in mind is that we are now you know you know you know how the Jews are kind of like their race and their religion and their way of organizing it's all like one it's all rolled up into one you can't they can't be one without being them all right we're reaching we're about at the same point you know you can't be Western without being a Christian without believing in capitalism of some sort or some kind of market economy. I know, you know, there was, there's been some recent chatter about that. But, you know, some sort of market form of economy without believing in some sort of,
Starting point is 07:02:53 even if you don't call it democracy, some kind of system of government in which the interests of, in which the interests of, You can have an economy without us, sorry. Yeah, exactly. And you can have a sort of a government where rights and privileges are given without, you know, having demo. Because, you know, a lot of people, you know, was it, the West doesn't organize itself like a sort of, you know, Eastern warlord monarchy. In Western monarchy, the king is very much playing balancer between the various things. interests of a society beneath him. It's not like this sort of, you know, warlord state that you find in an oriental society. But all of this, all of this is kind of coming together as like one
Starting point is 07:03:50 sort of cultural unity. And you can't be Western without being all of those things. And for the first time in our history, and really at the scale needed to solve the problem within the, because all of this played out in Germany a century ago. The Germans were the first. to reach this sort of unity. Now America is about to hit that same point that they did. And the difference is that America is at the scale that they weren't, I think, in order to really bring this whole story to a conclusion. But we still have a whole half to go.
Starting point is 07:04:22 What do you think of that, Mr. Pete? You have any thoughts on that? Yeah, but I will add this. And it's something that I've been thinking about recently, and I've run by a couple people. and we need to go back to having that one person in charge who's we can blame who who who's willing to act as an autark and a lot of people will argue that America is not ready for that and I will argue that Trump was the proof that he that they are
Starting point is 07:04:56 the people who voted for Trump that people who wanted Trump wanted him to come in and wanted him to be a bulldozer and wanted him to do things by fiat, wanted him to act as an autark. And I really honestly think that, so you have this, quote unquote, libertarian who's just elected president in Argentina. Why did they elect him there?
Starting point is 07:05:22 Because they're expecting him to step up and they're expecting him to just eliminate this. eliminate this department, eliminate this department, get rid of this, tear the government away, tear it down to its smallest size, and to bring them back to, you know, what they once were long before the, I'd say, things really went to shit for them, Great Depression, and they really, I don't even think they've recovered since the Great Depression. I think we're ready for that. I think that the people who
Starting point is 07:06:00 the people who see the direction that we're in that we're going in if change isn't made. If somebody doesn't make change decides to step up and make change, realize that they're okay with one person coming in and doing that. I think a lot of people also,
Starting point is 07:06:21 Desantis revealing himself as being one of the chief Philosemites on the planet. Before that, he showed himself as being basically a monarch, a king in Florida, and people love it. I think that the people who are making the argument that especially people on the right are not ready for somebody to step up and to be Caesar, they need to examine a little closer what's happening. happening around the world. I mean, Germany is about to outlaw the second most popular party in the country because that's the direction that that party is going. Yeah. And I mean, to be honest, and the Vox party in Spain. I mean, one of their leaders was just shot in the face in the street. Yeah. Yeah. This is the way things are going. And they,
Starting point is 07:07:27 and the people on the other side realize it and they are scared yeah you're not wrong um and but the thing is is like i guess on a sort of actionable point you know in 19 i think 26 or whatever um there was a you know there was there was a member of the nazi party who said um we have no idea when the great leader will come um that's only up to god all we can do is forge the sword to give to him when he does come. And that member of the Nazi party at that time, he was a newly admitted member, and his name was Adolf Hitler. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 07:08:17 But yeah, and that's the thing is it's like, you know, I'll leave it with this, Mr. Pete, right? you know, if you're a young guy or a younger guy who's still kind of planning on what to do with your life, if you're thinking about going to law school, see if you can do that because whoever comes is going to need people who know the system of laws and knows exactly what and how to cut out. If you're thinking about being an engineer, go do that. Engineers are going to be needed. If you're thinking about creating artistically, do that. We're going to need new cultural ideas expressed in high cultural forms. You know, if you're thinking about joining the military and once all this dies down,
Starting point is 07:09:00 this is once this, I mean, it's already dying down, Pete. We're not going to do anything in Israel. You know, I mean, now tomorrow we may go to war and I'll have egg on my face, but it's been quiet for a couple of weeks. And so, you know, that's the good, yeah, we're not going to do anything. Now is probably the best time to go into the military if you want to write your own ticket because they are so hurting for people that you can pretty much go anywhere or do anything. I'm not saying to do this to support Zog or whatever, but these are cultural institutions which will survive Zog.
Starting point is 07:09:30 We're still going to have a U.S. Army after this regime is gone. We're still going to have a U.S. code of laws. We're still going to have a U.S. government, right? And the best way for you to prepare yourself, to lend yourself to that great effort is to go out and do what it is you feel like God is telling you to do. Yeah. No. Yep. Do not shy away from becoming professionals because we're going to need, going to need you. But I would say that if what you want to do with your life doesn't,
Starting point is 07:10:13 if you feel compelled that you want to do something with your life and it doesn't include college, that you don't need college for it, you can skip that. skip that and go and do what you what you need to do but i used to be one of those people who said i don't want our you know our guys shouldn't be anywhere near the schools but um i really honestly think that the um we need elites and a lot of people look upon elites and they want to see what their education is and that just goes towards uh just there's credibility issues there too but also if you're going to be an engineer if you're going to be a lawyer and everything you're going need to do that. And that's where our guys need to be. We need to be taking over these,
Starting point is 07:10:59 bringing our influence into these institutions and throw on a monkey wrench into them, at least if it's just for a little while, you know, at least if it's just personally rattling some cages. You need to be, you need to be prepared to fulfill whatever minor part of the cultural mission it is that you need to do. you know, in order to do that, especially if it requires education, you need to get educated. But there's, as, you know, there's more than one way to skin a cap. And you're right about that, Pete. I know you haven't been doing a lot of content creation lately because of a wonderful things happening in your personal life. But is there any, is there anything that you wish to promote?
Starting point is 07:11:43 And I'll make sure to put anything in the show notes. Well, first and foremost, subscribe to the old glory club. I mean, if you've been listening to Pete's show and you're not subscribed to the old glory club, I don't know what to tell you at this point because I know for a fact he promotes it, not just when I come on. Because Pete, you're a member, you know, like it's, and the old glory club is, for those of you who don't understand, this is, it's a vital piece of the cultural mission of what the United States is, um, needs to undergo. The old glory club is extremely vital to, um, this, what we're trying to. get done here so if you want to be a part and now just right now subscribing we're we're trying to
Starting point is 07:12:26 get chapters set up um we're trying to get the first one or two established so we have the model for everyone else to follow um that's why we may not have been responding to you anons as quick as possible we've gotten some chapters we're trying to get off the ground first um and then once we get those off the ground we'll have a working framework as to what establishing one is supposed to look like and then it'll happen very quickly. But we've also put out the content I have been doing, Mr. Pete, I've been putting out on the Old Glory Club substack. I recently released an article about Toby Keith behind the paywall.
Starting point is 07:13:02 Toby Keith is apparently a lot. I didn't fucking know this. I suggested it as a meme. I looked into it. I'm like, oh, he's extremely important within the cultural struggle of America. So I released an article about Toby Keith behind the paywall. And also, Grant Brooks and I did a review of the movie Cars, and we released it, I think, yesterday. And so that's out on the Lord Club Substack now.
Starting point is 07:13:29 So go check that out. When you're done checking that out, I recently did a podcast episode with T.R. Hudson and J.L. Mackie on the Double Dealer podcast. They're a Southern Literature magazine. I've been published in there before. It's a great group of guys. And if you want to listen to me, rail on the South for about an hour and 30 minutes and slay a bunch of sacred cows to the South and particularly right-wing southerners, not in the way some people do it. It's from a pro-southern perspective. Go check that out as well. And finally, if you want to read my, that was ostensibly about my book. I'm about to recommend. If you want to read my collection of short stories, country squire's notebook, Google that, buy it, read it. I know, that's, I know that was a lot. Mr. Pete, but that's all the stuff I've got going on right now.
Starting point is 07:14:18 I'll have the links for that. I know I have the links for your book in the previous episode, a couple of previous episodes we've done, and I'm sure I have the old glory club in there. I'll take care of all of it. All right, Paul. Until the next time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pete.
Starting point is 07:14:34 I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignano show. Doing part two of cultural parasitism, Yaki, with Paul Farronite. How you doing, Paul? I'm doing great, Mr. Pete. Thank you for having me on yet again. Let's finish this up. All right. Yeah, let's not waste any time.
Starting point is 07:14:51 Let's share this and get it going. Oh, Don. I am a professional. A professional what? I actually shut down. I think I actually like turned off the, or exited out of the Yaki. You know, only the highest quality content creators, folks. Oh, we are the best here, aren't we?
Starting point is 07:15:22 Yeah, we're just like Gillette. All right, here we go. I found it. Not so difficult. I'm not going to edit this out. This happens a lot more often than people realize, but I usually edit it out. Well, this is the stuff that people tune in for. They love the little mess-ups and authentic little moments.
Starting point is 07:15:46 Yeah, let me see. What they don't know is that we plan this from the beginning to make the show seem more authentic. Yeah. There we go. All right. So we finished up part three in the cultural parasitism chapter. And now we are on part four. We're going to do four, five, and six, and that'll end it.
Starting point is 07:16:06 And then at a future date, probably further down the road, probably into the new year. because you have stuff going on. We'll jump into the next chapter, which is cultural distortion. And I think that's when things really start to heat up in this book. All right, part four. The materialistic 19th century saw this phenomenon of culture parasitism only as nation parasitism,
Starting point is 07:16:33 and thus it was misunderstood in each nation as merely a local condition. For this reason, the phenomenon in each country called anti-Semitism was only a partial reaction to what was a cultural and not merely a national condition. Antisemitism is precisely analogous in culture pathology to the formation of antibodies in the bloodstream and human pathology. In both cases, the organism is resisting the alien life.
Starting point is 07:17:06 Both are inevitable, organically necessary expressions of destiny. in fulfilling the proper destiny combats the alien it cannot be said too often that hatred and malice tolerance and goodwill have nothing whatever to do with this fundamental process a culture is an organism an organism of a different class from man just as man is an organism of a different class from animals but the fundamental regularities of organic life are present in all organisms of whatever class, plant, animal, man, culture. This hierarchy of organisms is obviously part of the divine plan and it cannot be changed by a process of propaganda no matter how continuous, tolerance, no matter how self-renouncing or self-deception, no matter how complete. So let's restate what he's kind of talking about in these first two paragraphs here.
Starting point is 07:18:07 So within the Yockean frame, we keep calling it the Yon. framework. Really, it's the Spanglarian framework that Yaki is kind of adding to. Just, Yaki is essentially updating the decline of the West after the Second World War. In the Spanglerian framework, there's a hierarchy, there's a sort of, there's plant life, animal life, and then human life or man is animal above the animals themselves. And then Spengler differentiates the next highest form of life as a sort of a culture or a high culture. And he treats this the same way that, you know, it's a very, and it comes from, it comes from Goethe's kind of naturalistic way of looking at the world. And so what Yaqui's talking about here, the phenomenon of what has been labeled anti-Semitism was really just what your body does whenever.
Starting point is 07:19:07 viruses in your bloodstream, you know, white blood cells, Mr. Pete, attack any sort of foreign entity within your bloodstream in an attempt to eliminate it, to prevent it from, you know, hijacking your body, hijacking, what is it, hijacking cells, red blood cells. And that's the same reaction because anti-Semitism, it's, it's, it wasn't so much as Yaki is illustrating here, a specific hatred or dislike. It's, just the recognition of this is a foreign entity that is not only, you know, not only causing significant difficulty, but just disrupting the entire kind of equilibrium that existed prior to their introduction. Yeah. Yeah. It's, and really, it's, and really, reading these first
Starting point is 07:19:57 two paragraphs out of, at the context of the first three sections of this chapter, can lead people to make implications and they're not there. You have to read the whole thing in order to understand exactly what he's saying here. But I think you put it in a clinical way that it should be looked at because that's the way Yaki's writing it. Well, real quick, before you go on,
Starting point is 07:20:23 let's like review this real quick just for the listeners who may not have immediately listened to the part one. Why are this group of people foreign? Why are they foreign? They are foreign because they are essentially residual holdovers from a previous high culture. That's pretty much it. They are a completely separate cultural entity from us.
Starting point is 07:20:46 That high culture, as all high cultures do, died and they got shotgun across the world. In part one, Yaki talks about the various places that these people went and that they changed themselves, maintaining their inner cultural sort of being while adapting to the, the various external cultural places they went. All right. So this is why that they are a foreign antibody, or not an antibody, they're a foreign entity rather to somewhere like the West,
Starting point is 07:21:16 because the West is an entirely different cultural entity. If, you know, Mr. Pete, like 2,000 years in the future and the West has died as a high culture, but you have like some holdover peoples, maybe they'll be looked at almost the exact same way by whatever later high culture comes as we look at this group of people today. Yes, especially if they are, especially of this, this leftover culture is taking control of certain means in which the culture that's existing at the time that it's not contributing to that culture, but it's basically disrupting it. Yeah, they're essentially living, you know, like we've talked about in the last part, they're essentially living as a parasitic entity.
Starting point is 07:22:02 siphoning off resources and positions that could be used for furthering that later high culture's cultural mission. Let's keep going onward. A treatment of anti-Semitism raises questions which belong with culture distortion rather than culture's parasitism, and it may suffice to say here that any-Semitism, again, precisely like the human pathological phenomenon of formation of antibodies in the blood, is the other side of the existence of culture parasitism and is only to be understood as one of its effects. Anti-Semitism is completely organic and irrational, just as is reaction to human disease.
Starting point is 07:22:45 Cultural parasitism is the phenomenon of the totally alien in coexistence with a host and is also entirely irrational. There is no reason for cultural, for culture parasitism. On the contrary, reason would seem to dictate that the alien group dissolve and flow into the surrounding life. This would end all the bitter persecution, the sterile hatred, the wasted fighting. But life is irrational, also during the age of rationalism. That's a great line. Life is irrational, also during the age of rationalism. In fact, the only way rationalism can come onto the stage is in the form of a religion, a faith, and irrationality.
Starting point is 07:23:29 Yeah, and real quick on that point, you know, individual entities at the margins do oftentimes dissolve off this group and are taken up by the much larger high culture surrounding it. Erhard Milch is a good example of this. Alfred Rosenberg is another good example of this. All right. All right. The phenomenon of culture parasitism is not confined in a high culture to the mother's soil of the culture. This is well shown by the history of America. America originated as a colony of the
Starting point is 07:24:05 Western culture. This one sentence contains the whole fate of America. It sets in advance the limit to the potentialities of America. The idea of the colony must be examined. What is a colony? It is a creation of a culture. It is a work. By its mere successful plantation, it is something spiritually completed. This is another way of saying it has no inner necessity, no mission. It is thus dependent for its spiritual nourishment on the mother culture. This is as true of America in the Western culture as it was of Syracuse and Alexandria and the classical and Granada and Seville and the Arabian.
Starting point is 07:24:48 While fruitful impulses can, albeit rarely, come from the periphery of the cultural body, they find their significance in their development in the culture center. The spiritual dependence of colonies is weakness. This weakness is expressed by lack of resistance to the culturally alien, and one would expect to find less organic resistance to the culturally alien in a colony for the sense of cultural mission is not generally present at all, but exists only in isolated individuals or tiny groups at best. You want to stop and comment on that right there?
Starting point is 07:25:26 I mean, you know, what is it? Let's finish up the paragraph because he kind of elaborates this more. Okay. The history of colonies shows us, Syracuse is one example, that culture crises, even orthopathic ones like the appearance of rationalism, produce greater effects in them. A colony can be more easily disintegrated because it lacks the articulation that the culture has.
Starting point is 07:25:52 There is not, cannot be a culture-bearing stratum in a colony. The stratum is an organ of the land-bound high culture. The culture cannot be transplanted, even though its populations migrate and remain in contact with the body of the culture. Colonies are products of a culture and represent life at a less complex and articulate level than the creating culture. so this is this paragraph right here is where i disagree with yaki um yaki asserts here that a you know when the first time when i reread this for the for this um i had an idea i had a feeling
Starting point is 07:26:35 that you were going to disagree with this part yes and that's and that's and here's the thing once again the model yaki is using i think is a very helpful and useful model um i what is it the thing is, is that when he, what is it, he brings up the example of Syracuse as a colony of the Greco-Roman culture. Syracuse created some of the most, was it, Syracuse birthed, some of the most important individuals within Greek culture. If I remember correctly, I think it was Archimedes who is, who is from Syracuse. I'm going to fact check myself because I got a fact wrong last time and I want to make sure. Yes, Archimedes was one of the most important, what is it, was one of the most important Greek mathematicians of all time and he came from Syracuse. All right. So I disagree
Starting point is 07:27:28 with Yaqui in this instance of how you cannot transplant the cultural mission of a culture bearing stratum from one place to another. Now, I believe it does change given the different geography all right um yaki believes you know yaki believes especially as he asserts in this paragraph that a high culture is entirely limited to the geography from which it originates um if that's the case it cannot exist anywhere outside of its origin point i believe that has been disproven by the was it not by the example he uses Syracuse, but also by the United States. And as a matter of fact, I, you know, for example, Rome, Rome was begun its existence as a
Starting point is 07:28:25 colony of Magna Graquia. All right. That was the earliest recorded existence of Rome. Rome then proceeded to become the cultural center of the Greco-Roman high culture in its civilizational phase and its imperial phase. I believe that the same thing is occurring in the United States. States. While he is correct that the cultural mission is not as highly concentrated, is not as present, is, you know, what is it, is more easily overwhelmed. I do believe that is correct
Starting point is 07:28:55 because, of course, if you take a tree and transplant it across the ocean, it, I don't want to say it loses an amount of vitality, but it changes. It changes. And its offspring change in reaction to the new geography all right while i believe you know i believe that that is the case i do not believe that what is it that i'm out that what is it that it is limited to the geography of the origination of the high culture all right so you know for those of you who say you know you can just read yaki and get all of my opinions you're wrong you have to i i've read enough of spengler and i've read enough of yaki to know exactly where i disagree with them and where i think think, even within their own framework, they're incorrect.
Starting point is 07:29:42 Well, the one thing that he said here about, where does he imply the being more permissive when it comes to allowing other cultures, which would be allowing immigration in a colony as opposed to the mother culture? I think there is something to that. There is. Of course there is. You know, and the same was true in previous high cultures. At the same time, those
Starting point is 07:30:17 places which were, what is it? Those places where colonies were set up are in many ways by their, you know, eventual minority status, they were able to much better define themselves, much better create themselves than they
Starting point is 07:30:33 otherwise, not than they otherwise would have, than they began at. as a colony. All right. Onward. The comprehension of this elementary fact has always been unconsciously quite complete in America, and in the 20th century has been just as vehemently consciously denied. American men of letters in the 19th century assimilated Western culture inwardly, and were assimilated by it.
Starting point is 07:31:01 The phenomenon of Edgar Poe has always generated wonder by reason of his complete mastery of culture thinking and total independence of his colonial environment. In its higher branches, American Bellet has figured as a part of English literature and quite correctly as regards most of it. The poverty and meagerness of American letters is attributable to the colonial fate, while its few great names are expressions of Western culture. Americans of all high call of all callings through the past two centuries insofar as they were or wish to be men of significance have had their center of gravity in Europe Irving Hawthorne Emerson Whistler Frank Harris Henry James the financial the finance plutocracy Wilson Ezra Pound a tradition in America makes a European tour a part of education. continued to possess spiritually those American elements with culture feelings or culture
Starting point is 07:32:08 ambitions. In every generalization of organic subject matter, it is sought only to state the great regularity. The deviations always exist in living matter, but find their place only with respect to larger rhythms. Rationalists thought attempted to disintegrate organic thought, a thinking by concentrating on the deviating incidents in the attempt to destroy the great sweeping organic rhythm. It had not even the depth sufficient to grasp the wisdom contained in the saw. The exception proves the rule. Even though it became the fashion in America after its appearance as a world power following
Starting point is 07:32:50 the Spanish War 1898, 1890, to deny its spiritual dependence upon Europe, the fact continued to exist. By this time, we are not surprised when a culture fact shows its disregard of human wishes, intentions, demands, statements. America is a subject that needs to be treated separately, as the culture disease of the West has given a new significance in Western, in world politics. In this place, the presence of culture parasitism in America is the only aspect under consideration? So I've, you know, I've already kind of stated my disagreements with with Yaqui here. His, I, you know, honestly, Pete, what I think I need to do is, you know how Yaki updated
Starting point is 07:33:41 decline of the West after World War II? I need to update Imperium after the end of the Cold War. you know in short was he's everything he quotes here is factually correct all right oftentimes american letters are considered as a part of wider english literature at the same time i've you know i'm pretty well versed in both of them and american literature is different it is quite simply different it is it is it is different enough from english culture that you could in many ways consider it its own separate nation. And he also talks about its spiritual dependence on Europe.
Starting point is 07:34:28 And he uses the Spanish war as kind of the great moment. He kind of utilizes this as the moment that culture parasitism kind of took hold in America after America denied its spiritual dependence upon Europe. I believe if Yaki, and I think, you know, if, if Yaki were a around today and he saw the kind of, what is it, the kind of thinkers that we're starting to get on the American continent now, particularly within this political movement and the wider associated scene. I believe his opinion may be tempered somewhat. He may still hold it, but once again, I've already kind of stated my disagreements here. And this is, this is my most radical departure
Starting point is 07:35:08 from Yaqui. And it's always been since I first read him is that, you know, Yaki's opinion on America and my opinion on America are completely opposed. All right. Part 5. From the early 17th century onward, continuing to the early 19th century, slave trading brought millions of African aborigines to America. These form during the 18th and first half of the 19th century, a large prolific and totally alien parasitic body. It is a good example of the cultural meaning of the term parasite that it has no reference to work in the economic sense. Thus, the Africans in America were economically important and after an economy was built on them, necessary in a practical sense. Class war made it to the mode to refer to all persons other than
Starting point is 07:36:02 the manual workers as parasites. This was a polemical term and has no community of any kind with a phenomenon of cultural parasitism. The Negro in America was the expression of cultural parasitism, despite economic utility. That's true. They've kind of been, it was it, you know, Nick Land calls it the most expensive commodity in history. Yeah, cotton was the most expensive commodity in history. And this is, this is something I will, you know, a lot of Virginia planters recognize
Starting point is 07:36:37 this immediately after independence, was that, you know, the institution gifted them by the British needed to go, James Monroe and James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and Charles Fenton Mercer, all being amongst the leading individuals on what was called the American Colonization Society. Mr. Pete, if you're not familiar, the American Colonization Society was a nonprofit organization in the early 19th century that played the most vital role in the purchasing the land and setting up the country that is now Liberia. Okay. I didn't know that.
Starting point is 07:37:22 I'll look that up. Cool. All right. Let's keep going. The first result of the presence of such a cultural, culture parasitic body is known. He displaced unborn white men in America. By performing part of the life task,
Starting point is 07:37:38 he made unborn millions unnecessary, and therefore this great mass of Africans has reduced the population of America by 10%. For at the present moment, 1948, the Africans make up 14 million out of a total of 140 million. You know what's funny? What? They haven't really grown more than that since.
Starting point is 07:37:58 Yeah, about 3%. The fashionable materialistic way of explaining this displacement in America is to say that white people will not bring children into the world to compete economically with the blacks and their lower living standard. Naturally, economic obsession explains everything economically, but the facts of population trends show that the population of an organic unity follows a life path that may even be described mathematically.
Starting point is 07:38:26 It is entirely independent of immigration, of the wishes of individuals, and of non-organic explanations given for it. The displacement of culture, i.e. total, and is not to be fully explained by economics. The colonial mentality, more thoroughly disintegrated by the rationalist crisis, has been able to oppose no effective defense to the increasing displacement of the white population, the vehicle of America's attachment to the West, by the African. With equal inability either to comprehend or to oppose, America has not resisted while the rearguard of the Arabian culture, which was strewn throughout the West, even at its cultural origins, has assumed, larger numerical proportions and a vastly larger role than it ever had in Europe. Beginning around 1880, the Jews embarked upon what Hilairebelic aptly termed an invasion of the United States.
Starting point is 07:39:27 The numbers alone would justify the figure. While they cannot be exactly given because of the fact that American immigration statistics reflect only legal origins, i.e. nation of legal allegiance, nevertheless, they can be approximated from a study of current American population figures and study of the Jewish birth rate. How typical this is of the total incongruence between two different cultures that a mass movement of members of one can occur within the other culture and leave no statistical trace. The immigrant was asked where he was born. That was determining of everything for 19th century materialism.
Starting point is 07:40:05 It was supposed to fix his language, which then was supposed to govern his national and nationality was supposed to preordain everything else. Such things as petrofacts of dead cultures, India, China, Islam, Jewry, were regarded as nations in the Western sense of the word. In form, rationalism was definitely a religion, but a bloodless materialistic caricature of true religion. Religion is properly directed towards the great, higher things of man's spirituality, but rationalism tried to turn things like economics, state, society, nation, into the object of its
Starting point is 07:40:43 own religious concern. America began its independent political existence as a creature of rationalism. Its politicians agreed to the proposition externally that all men were created equal and even said that this was self-evident. To call it self-evident and thus dispense with proof was easier and perhaps wiser than to prove proof would have spoiled what is actually a tenet of a faith and thus above reason. The religion of rationalism dominated America in a way that it was never able to dominate Europe. Europe always had resistance against rationalism, based on tradition until the middle of the 19th century,
Starting point is 07:41:28 and after that, based on anticipation of the coming anti-rationalist spirit of the 20th century, as exemplified in Carlisle and Nietzsche. But America did not possess the first because it had no tradition and had not the second because cultural impulses and the culture-forwarding phenomena come from the mother's soil and are thence radiated outward as the rationalistic religion of America came from England through France. America acquired even its section of jewelry from Europe, whence it had acquired its materialistic philosophy to both of which it succumbed. This was no coincidence. The word spread rapidly through the Jewish population of Europe that anti-Semitism was less of a threat in America and that other opportunities such as the economic were equal to those Europe offered to the Jew.
Starting point is 07:42:21 This was perfectly sound and was a tribute to the collectivist Jewish instinct. America did undoubtedly represent in the late 19th century a country with the greatest possibilities for the Jew. From 1880 to 1950, approximately remember, No exact figures exist. Five to seven million Jews arrived in America. They came mostly from the Eastern or Ashkenazik section of jewelry. At the present time, the Jews in America number approximately 8 to 12 millions. An exact figure cannot be given because the number is not reflected in any statistics,
Starting point is 07:43:00 but must be approximated from religious statistics and study of the birth rate. At any rate, it is a concern. considerable number, and it displaces its own numbers of Americans from existence. The American writer Madison Grant in 1916 described how the Americans of the Old Stock was being, the American of the Old Stock was being driven off the streets of New York City by the swarms of the Jews. He called them Polish Jews, as the older custom was to give the Jews a Western nationality. Westerners thus used to differentiate between English Jews, German Jews, and so forth.
Starting point is 07:43:36 It was a compulsion of the Western civilization at that stage to see all other people outside the civilization in its own image. America, as the country most completely disintegrated by rationalism, exhibited the least understanding of the nature of the Jew. While there were always some people in Europe, for instance, Carlisle, even during the 19th century who realized the total and not merely political alienness, of the Jew. But in America, with its complete lack of tradition, there were no Carlisle's, no de la Gards. Thus, America decided in the middle of the 19th century that a Chinaman born
Starting point is 07:44:18 in the United States, thereby acquired exactly the same American citizenship as the white native population of European derivation. Characteristically, the decision was not made in a responsible fashion, but as the results of a lawsuit. This was in pursuance of an American custom of deciding political questions in a pseudo-legal form. Obviously, a regime which did not differentiate between Chinese and Native American, would oppose no political barrier to the Jew. And so, by 1928, the French writer on historical and world political topics, Andrei Siegfried, could say that New York City had a Semitic countenance.
Starting point is 07:44:58 By the middle of the 20th century, this development had gone further, and New York City, the largest city in America, perhaps in the world, was almost half Jewish in population. Everything he's describing here did happen. Yeah. All right. Part six, the final part of this chapter. America, with its total lack of spiritual resistance, springing from the inherent soul
Starting point is 07:45:26 weakness of a colony, became the host to other large culturally parasitic groups. The period of dense immigration. which had begun before the turn of the 20th century and in which the Jews came brought in also many millions of Balkan Slavs. Between 1900 and 1915 alone, 15 million immigrants came to America from Asia, Africa, and Europe. They came mostly from Russia, the Levant, and the Balkan countries. From the Western civilization came a fair number of Italians, but the rest of the human material was from outside the West. These millions, by their very numbers, created phenomena of cultural, of cultural, of culture parasitism.
Starting point is 07:46:09 On the edge of each group, individuals passed into the American feeling, but the groups continued to exist as such. This was shown by the existence of newspaper press for each group in its own language, unity of the groups for political purposes, geographical centralization of the various groups, and social exclusiveness of the groups. In examining the nature of race, we saw that Slavs could be and have been assimilated by European culture populations. Two features that extinguish the American relationship to the Slav and explain why Slavs have retained their group existence, even though surrounded by an American population under the influence of Western civilization. First, the fact of its colonial style of existence meant that America could not transmit to, could not transmit
Starting point is 07:46:59 to entering populations the forceful impress of the cultural idea that the Western nations on the mother's soil could. Secondly, the enormous masses, numbering many millions, created by their mere bulk of pathological condition in the American organism. Even if these millions had been of Western antecedents, such as French or Spanish, they would have created a politically parasitic group. Naturally, such a group would have dissolved eventually, but in the process it would have had a distorting effect on policy in America. Slavic groups, on the other hand, in masses of millions, whose leaders are allowed facilities of welding the group into a firm unity,
Starting point is 07:47:43 will only slowly, if ever, dissolve into the American host population under such conditions. America has other smaller parasitic groups, each of which displaces unborn Americans and calls forth the unfortunate displays of hate. and bitterness, which waste and twist a super-personal life. There is a Japanese group, various Levantine groups, and the Russian group. Superficially, it might seem that the case of America militates against the 20th century view of race set forth above, but actually it does not. The American example is no criterion for Europe for being a colony. It is an area of low cultural sensitivity, with correspondingly less cultural,
Starting point is 07:48:29 force and assimilative power. In other words, the power of adaptation is slighter than of the mother soil. The case of, you good? Yeah, I just, the thing is, is that, is that once again, if Yaqui's assertion that America is a colony and his characterization of a colony are correct, then all of this is correct. But I simply disagree that America is a colony. The case of America is not a case of assimilating too much.
Starting point is 07:49:03 It is a case of not assimilating enough. Alien groups, whether merely potentially alien such as a Western group and another Western nation, or totally alien, like the Jew and a Western host, are parasitic only so long as they are groups. When they dissolve, the totality of the assimilating population has increased. The fact that this has come from immigration rather than from increased by birth, surpluses of the native population is not important. The mere fact that they could assimilate shows that they were not alien in a parasitic sense.
Starting point is 07:49:37 Nor must this be ignored in examining cultural, culture parasitism in America. This American population during the 19th century assimilated many millions of Germans, Irish, English, and Scandinavians into its own bloodstream. The 20th century immigration did not come mainly. mainly from these European countries, but to the extent that it did, complete assimilation occurred. In the case of the immigrant Germans and Irish, the Yankee armies of the War of Secession employed them in great number and with great success, what never could have been done with
Starting point is 07:50:13 culturally alien groups, example, Jews or Slavs. America has been called the melting pot. This, it is not, for the massive groups of culturally alien provenance have not melted but have remained distinct. The first time I ever heard it referred to as a salad that made the most sense to me. Yeah. Groups not culturally alien have assimilated at once, which means in one generation, and thus the 20th century view of race applies also to the facts of the American scene.
Starting point is 07:50:49 These unassimilated groups in America comprise between one-third and one-half of the population of America. The Slavic groups are apparently slowly being assimilated, but even if they disappeared entirely, the remaining culturally parasitic groups would comprise a pathological condition of the utmost seriousness for America. The old-fashioned view of vertical racism can derive no instruction from the case of America, for what we see there is not the mixture of races, but their non-mixture. All of the parasitic groups have been torn loose from old landscapes, but have no no new spiritual connections. Only the landless Jew, who carries nation, church, state, people, race, and culture within him
Starting point is 07:51:34 has preserved his ancient roots. The phenomenon of cultural, of culture parasitism, even though divorced from ethics, is not outside the realm of policy. It does no good whatever to talk about culturally alien groups in terms of praise and blame, hatred, or tolerance. wars, riots, massacres, destruction, the entire waste of senseless domestic conflict, all the phenomenon which inevitably rise when a host entertains a culture parasite remain as long as the pathological condition lasts.
Starting point is 07:52:10 Culture parasitism, by calling forth resistant phenomena, has a doubly injurious effect on the body of the culture and its nations. A fever is a sign of resistance to a disease in a human, but this does not confer a positive health value on the fever. Its sole value is negative, and the fever itself is a part of the disease, even though the saving part. Resistant phenomena like the anti-Japaneseism
Starting point is 07:52:36 and anti-Semitism and anti-Negroism of America are as undesirable as the conditions they are combating. Similarly, European anti-Semitism has no positive value, and moreover, it can, if exaggerated, easily develop into another type of cultural of culture pathology that aggra that aggravated condition which may proceed also from culture parasitism under certain circumstances namely culture distortion so he gets into a large part of that in the next chapter which we're probably going to go over in the future um i don't want you know mr pitt we still got some time left and you know i i don't want
Starting point is 07:53:20 this to just be, you know, what is it, to just be, the Paul disagrees with the hockey show. All right. A lot of what he has stated here is correct. All right. America has taken in an unbelievable amount of foreign cultural forms. A lot of them, most all of them being dead cultural forms. The Slavs, he did suggest have more or less totally assimilated. There's, you know, I mean, the thing.
Starting point is 07:53:50 thing is i would suggest to to mr yaki is that um despite itself all right the cultural impact of these people has remained largely limited to um up until was it to up until recently coastal metropolitan areas and um also what is it also um it's starting to become some interior metropolitan areas and he is correct in that so long as these entities remain within the United States it will retain a sort of feverish
Starting point is 07:54:25 influence upon the United States that being said you are beginning to see a rising cultural consciousness within the old the founding stock of the United States. Yaki says elsewhere and Imperium, that the cultural mission cannot be repressed for longer than a generation or two. Even if you, what is it? Even if you try to genetically replace the individuals that carry it, right?
Starting point is 07:54:57 It's never 100% successful. And even the people who you've tried to kind of throw into a place will start joining the ranks of the previous cultural mission. The West has a cultural mission. It has yet to complete. And it has gone. on for a very long time because the disease of rationalism has essentially broke down one by one every single cultural resistance that the West had in the pre-rationalist era of resisting foreign influences, resisting foreign entities. All right. This was the case in Europe. However, unlike Europe, which went through its entire phase of modernism and all that, America, is a sort of, you know, at least a great part of it is a sort of preservation of many of the
Starting point is 07:55:47 tendencies and abilities and attitudes of the Western high culture in a much earlier form. In a much earlier form. And this is, this is to its detriment when, you know, it just hit rationalism. Rationalism hit America much later than it hit most of Europe. America had no real counter-revolution. The closest thing it got was the Civil War. And because of this breakdown in cultural barriers, it has gotten itself into the situation it currently finds itself today.
Starting point is 07:56:28 What has been very interesting and what has been always hiding under the surface is that there always has been a sort of looming backlash that you first saw, exemplified. You know, it dominated for a time. He mentioned Madison Grant. Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard and trying to think there was a third one, Brooks Adams, and also to a certain extent, Henry Adams, the Adams brothers. They were all exemplifiers of the sort of wasp ruling elite, which was the closest thing to a reaction America had. You know, and so long as they were in charge, certain policies, you know, what was it when, after this first battle in the early 20th century, you had some of the most restrictive immigration acts passed ever in the United States.
Starting point is 07:57:19 That was only undone with Hartzeller in 1965, which really kicked into overdrive this problem. So now, Mr. Pete, in the United States, white Europeans remain, you know, discounting certain remain the majority this uh what is it this minority by 2050 status is a prediction but it is not real yet all right and america specifically the founding stock of america is starting to recognize what it is as a cultural entity more and more first unconsciously but more and more more consciously you know we were talking about we were talking about we were before the show it's almost mainstream now in the united states to name them if in the united states you can name them all right you can say who is causing this sort of culture this culture
Starting point is 07:58:27 parasitism and even this culture distortion that is the beginnings of this disease being gotten the better of all right anti-Semitism in the United States has always been bubbling beneath the surface, has always been in unspoken attitudes, has always remained within the body of
Starting point is 07:58:50 the Western high culture that is found within the United States it has required a significant exertion of material means to retard that cultural mission with things like dispensationalism
Starting point is 07:59:06 with things like you know holocaust studies and all of that and as always it can only retard the mission it can only slow it down it cannot stop it and we are finding that this backlash is starting to bubble up is starting to express itself more than has ever been allowed in american in history since probably the 1920s and 30s. And like you saw with the skinhead movement and the militia movement in the 90s, it's always just waiting underneath the surface
Starting point is 07:59:43 to come out. So compare this to the mother soil of the culture of Europe, which Yaqui describes the origin of the Western high culture, at least according to Spengler's framework, I believe they have been
Starting point is 08:00:11 completely and totally dispossessed of any cultural status they once had. I've said as much on different streams before, but in the United States, it is not illegal to question certain things, and you will not be arrested. for mentioning certain things. It's starting to shift the other way in some places there as well. This is a culture-wide phenomenon. I believe that should success be found in the United States,
Starting point is 08:00:48 should the cultural mission gain enough steam where it cannot be slowed anymore in the United States, I believe that the West will finally shake off this cultural disease and will be able to fulfill its cultural mission. And if not, then we'll have found a different way for a high culture to die. The first time a high culture has died in the history of high cultures, you know, high cultures usually die through petrification or through basically fiery destruction. This one will be a high culture that died from disease of essentially, you know,
Starting point is 08:01:30 of pathologies basically bringing it under if we are to use Yaqui's framework. Anyway, that's kind of the extent of my thoughts on the chapter if you have any comments on those. Well, I think what, from the readings that we've done, and especially the readings on race, when you take into consideration that people who have been exposed to European culture,
Starting point is 08:02:06 who are Europeans by blood, who are Europeans by race, that they can come here and they can assimilate properly. Yet people who have been in Europe and resided in Europe for 17, 1800 years before, even many of those cultures were, created before they saw their genesis, they can't. It's just without dealing with that in a way of just basically, you know,
Starting point is 08:02:43 what like AA would say, clear them out, or Jonathan Bowden would say, clear them out. They got to go. I don't see how we get past it unless they assimilate all of a sudden. You know, it's like Tim Kelly always says, He goes, they're going to have to accept Christ or something. Because it's going to lead to destruction. And like we've talked about, and I don't think you mind me bringing this up on the air. What we talked about off the air is, you know, having Israel in a place for them to go is a good thing.
Starting point is 08:03:18 Yeah. The fact is, is that they've set themselves up in a way that because of their centuries, of being the victim and playing off of that victimhood, they, you know, I've said it, and I know this is, you know, this seems cruel, but in 1948 and especially in 1967, and they should have just gotten those people out of there. They should have just cleared them out. You know, what we're talking about, clear them out.
Starting point is 08:03:53 You get to get these people just do not mesh with your culture. Get them the hell out of there. Do what you have to do to clear it out, and then you establish your own culture. But I think that these are people who have become so, they rely so much upon their victimhood status that they need to keep these people around, abuse them every once in a while. And then when they fight back by owning the means of mass communication, they can go, look, we're trying to be nice to these people. we want to, somebody shared an article with me from like 2016 where they were talking about building a man-made island off of Gaza and transferring them to this island, giving their road economy, their own airport, all of this and everything.
Starting point is 08:04:40 And I'm like, they never meant to do that. That is just another way of saying, look, we want to do this, but these people can't handle it. We're trying everything we can. We're the victims here. Cry for us. I mean, I don't know where to. I don't know where this goes. I don't know how this ends other than, you know, our friend Charles Haywood says that this is, you know, and not specifically towards, you know, violence towards Jewish populations, but in violence, in general.
Starting point is 08:05:13 Yeah. I just, how does it, how does this play out? I mean, in terms of the broader cultural mission, either the Western high culture manages to, manages to manage, manages. to fight its way through this disease by the grace of God or it just simply succumbs to it and we have in the books of history a new high culture
Starting point is 08:05:38 a new way a high culture can die which the pessimist in me would say the latter some might say it's too late and the latter's already going to happen I have to you know as long as I exist I have to carry out the cultural mission But you're right, Mr. Pete, in that, you know, this does not have a peaceful ending, you know, assuming there's no, there is no ending of this in any way, shape, or form where some sort of action is not taken. All right. You know, recently, you know, I'll mention this before, but the political possibility of ending this.
Starting point is 08:06:25 this is possible. It only lacks political will. But it can be done. It can be done. There are outlets. It is simply a lack of creativity and a lack of will and a lack of ability to confront. All right. And that's just the holdovers of a world that was obsessed with economics and lower things. And that's just what happens in high cultures. If a, you know, everyone, everyone, it's so trite, you know, you know, every time you say Caesar on a DR podcast, put a nickel in the, in the Caesar jar. Take a drink and get alcohol poisoning. Yeah. But like that's, that's, it's, it just seems to be it's the only macro political way out.
Starting point is 08:07:17 It's the only macro political way out. And, and, and, and I think it can be done. You know, we've talked about there's various control valves, Israel being one, Liberia being another, you know, it's not like these people are, you know, it's not like all of these people are not from countries. It's not like they don't have places to go back to, you know. My initial policy was, you know, I don't know. I mean, it's this, this has kind of been what America has tried to do, is try to develop other places. maybe with the implicit assumption that if they make other places rich, they'll leave and go back, but it appears that that's just impossible. And so perhaps more drastic things. Well, I mean, it's impossible because what we're talking about, we're talking about culture. They don't have a high culture that those places don't have a high culture that can, and we can't transfer, transfer one there that causes them to be prosperous. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. And I mean,
Starting point is 08:08:22 And perhaps it took, you know, people have to understand these things is that, you know, this is a long-term game, a cultural mission, like the West's cultural mission, if you take Spengler slash Yaki's framework properly, the West cultural mission began 1300 years ago, if not a little bit longer. If a high culture lasts about 2,000 years, we've still got a long way to go. You know, we still have a, what is it? We still have, we still have, we're still in the fetters of the sort of rationalist era. You know, you saw a glimpse at what the future will be. in the previous century so long as the cultural mission isn't brought down before it reaches its own fulfillment, in this coming century, you're already seeing trends extremely similar
Starting point is 08:09:29 just change to these different circumstances of the last century at a much larger scale. So, you know, I don't know. I'm an American who doesn't think America is an evil concept and thinks America as a cultural entity and thinks America has a right to perpetuate its own existence culturally. I believe that culture stems from English culture, but from a couple of others as well. I believe that, and I believe that because of the cultural similarity between all of those various mother cultures that were on the original coat of arms of the United States, America, given its unique geography, then developed a wholly new expression of Western culture, you know. And
Starting point is 08:10:14 because of that, I don't believe that's gone. I don't believe that can die until the cultural mission is fulfilled. And Pete, you and I both know what the cultural mission is. The cultural mission is colonization of space. You know, believe it or not, Elon Musk is about as close as you can as you can get to someone who can fulfill the cultural mission. And it's no wonder he's starting to understand these things. But he came from another colony too. He came from South Africa, which is a sort of, if you want to see what the future of America looks like, assuming nothing different happens, you know, you look at South Africa. But I don't know, Mr. Pete. I have to be an optimist. I have to believe that my country has strength left in it,
Starting point is 08:11:04 has culture left in it, you know, that given our little attempt to kind of show, shift discourse, our little attempt on this scene to kind of bring these ideas back into the fore, I have to believe that these results, which we are already seeing, old stock heritage American, are starting to be used everywhere. And that denotes a waking cultural consciousness. You know, and with the invention of the internet and with the disruption of the materialistic sort of means of mass media, as you see the generations get cycled out and the younger generation start learning more about the world, start placing them in a more and more economically, politically,
Starting point is 08:11:52 governmentally important positions, culturally important positions. I think that at the very least, you will see a good shot at overcoming this. You know, we know that it is possible for governments, people within governments, to make change. I have a substack coming out tomorrow where I talk about a few subjects, but I talk about Buckelly and El Salvador. This is a guy who arrested 6,000 people in 10 days.
Starting point is 08:12:31 And like almost immediately the murder rate in this country dropped by half. He didn't even have, I mean, and this is just his, what is his, native population. This is people in his native population. It's just will. But what I see with politicians today,
Starting point is 08:12:58 especially politicians in the United States, is they are either or and, but either and it could be both engineering the destruction or they are anticipating the destruction. So they're just, looting the treasury and getting as much as they can. So how do we fix it? And at this point, I mean, really, the only way that I can see that it can even be fixed a little bit is locally, is people stepping up and fixing their local areas, you know, stepping up and doing that.
Starting point is 08:13:35 El Salvador is a much smaller country than the United States. And I think the smaller, the better. but I think that's the only way that's the way it starts I don't know that waiting for Washington, D.C. or waiting for Caesar is the way. I mean, I think we can have, you know, I
Starting point is 08:13:56 think, you know, we can ride the tiger while this is going on. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, it was, it's I think Buechle is an example of, you know, how quickly this can in fact be fixed, you know, and the example people, you know, this was probably a week or so ago now, so it's old news.
Starting point is 08:14:26 But, you know, when Gavin Newsom just cleaned up the streets of San Francisco unilaterally, you know, it probably took him even less time than it took Buckele, you know, just to make the city look like it was somewhat clean and that's because he thought an important dignitary was visiting you know and so it's like it's like the only explanation the only explanation that we have for the actions of our government is that we are ruled by foreigners that is the only what is it that is the only explanation for what we have we are ruled by foreigners and those foreigners
Starting point is 08:15:15 continue their rule by eliminating the concept of foreigners altogether and reality always reasserts itself Mr. Pete and
Starting point is 08:15:26 I really am hopeful at least for the future of my people maybe not economically necessarily but in the sense of what they can do
Starting point is 08:15:39 I am hopeful. Yeah, we have to be. If we give up, I mean, you know, there's a lot. Yeah, it's like I've always said, there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can do, but it may just be that the system
Starting point is 08:15:56 is too far gone at this point. And, you all... No, I was just going to say about Yaki writing that. Yaki was writing in 1948. You know, that was probably the darkest time in the history of Western culture for people like Yaki, you know. So I think I don't want to psychologize, but it's understandable why he took such a pessimistic
Starting point is 08:16:20 bent at that time. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, it's, when we look at just recent history of our country, what's happened the last 20 years, 30 years, go back 40 years, go back 50 years. and you see the decline, how fast it can just go right downhill.
Starting point is 08:16:46 You know, it's not unsurprising that people would get blackpilled. But I think those are people who are blackpilled on national politics and who are blackpilled because they haven't decided to live. they've decided that whatever the politics is at the time is for, I don't know for, I don't know for what reason. They don't have faith. They don't have, you know, they aren't living historically, which most people aren't. They just have nothing. And they've decided that they're, they've given up on anything, on everything.
Starting point is 08:17:29 But, you know, one thing that I can save from, you know, living, living where I. I do and being around people that I'm I'm around now, you know, people who've lived in this area for whose families have been here for 200 years, 250 years settled in this area. I, it's hard to be blackpilled around here. It's hard to be blackpilled when you're around people who actually know what living historically is. They can't, they can't articulate it to you. They're just doing it.
Starting point is 08:18:03 It's, you can't be blackpilled. if you're in culture. You know, that's the, that's the key thing missing is that, you know, almost none of the younger generation have culture, you know, and but culture, culture is something that you achieve. It's not something you're born with. It's something you gain by understanding and you steward, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's something, and my, and mass media and other stuff like that is actually a means of, of totally
Starting point is 08:18:34 in about as fast of a period as possible, imagine if it were turned the other way. Imagine if people were blasted by state edict, nothing but, you know, culture on a regular basis. You know, yeah, it wouldn't make the stupid smart, but it would completely change the tenor of how things are going here. You know, and this is the thing I always want to try to emphasize to people. it's absolutely ludicrous how fast almost all of this can be fixed yeah yeah i mean and
Starting point is 08:19:12 just the two examples the one example i gave the one the one example you gave can can be turned can be turned around immediately you turn around me i mean not immediately they'll take some time they'll be pain line the line is going to go the line may go down for a while you know it's not you know the libertarians and the classical liberals where if the line goes down, that means that everything's going to hell and we've got to do everything to make sure get back to where the line goes up. If you improve the culture, the line will go back up. They're relics of a previous age.
Starting point is 08:19:51 Yeah. I mean, liberalism and libertarianism is, I mean, it is basically, it's gone. It's done. that's we're not entering that's not the age we're entering in and i hate when libertarians argue that well libertarianism hasn't been tried then you have somebody like milay in um in argentina who's talking about using libertarian no he's he's not talking about using explicitly libertarian means he's talking about like i mean becoming an autark is that what
Starting point is 08:20:29 libertarianism is? Libertarianism is all of a sudden about monarchs. You're starting about doing things by fiat. Oh, the irony. It's, I mean, you know, and you know what? I want him to succeed. I want him to do right for his people. I think it's going to be extremely difficult considering the geist that we live in,
Starting point is 08:20:58 but I want it I want it for them and I understand why so many people in the United States look over look at Argentina and they're like I wish we could be like I wish we had someone like that I understand why so many Americans especially in the MAGA and the conservative movement worship Israel because they see a society with closed borders they seemingly like their own people they have a national identity and everything and they wish they could have that here. I get it. I wish we had a president like Buckelly here. I get it all. We have one waiting. Well, he's he's he's he's coming back. He's he's coming back. His story is not over yet, guys. I mean, look, and here's the thing like he's the best we got. He's he is
Starting point is 08:21:54 literally the best we've got, you know. And, you know, Mr. Mr. Pete, we've talked about this, I think, on the old glory club streams, too. But, like, his, it really does, if I asked you right now, do you think Trump's story is over? Oh, no. No. I want to see him, I want to see him win the election. I don't want to see him in jail because I don't want to see that for anybody who hasn't committed a crime. But imagine him winning the presidency from jail.
Starting point is 08:22:25 imagine it's like that scene in the man in the man was a stupid show but I'm just reminded when one of the character in prisons Reinhard Hydrick in jail
Starting point is 08:22:37 and he lets him out and he's super apologetic but anyway it was a trick but yeah I mean imagine that I mean what if what if
Starting point is 08:22:49 Trump needs to be jailed after let's just say a pooch that was failed and then he writes a was it and he writes a award winning political pamphlet
Starting point is 08:23:02 called the Art of the Struggle and and he's appointed speaker of the house after an unfortunate after the president and vice president unfortunately die
Starting point is 08:23:17 oh well I don't know you know, you hope to see a change in the culture of the people first. Yeah. Because I think that's what elites look for. That's why I think that, you know, what we're seeing now with this, the rise of the noticing and things like that. I mean, it's been a year since, it's basically been a year since Kanye went off the reservation. Yeah.
Starting point is 08:23:49 And crazy to think that that happened. And that's already a year ago. It was a year ago, yeah. It was December 1st. But at the same time, it was only a year ago? Yeah. And look at what's happened. You know, what did Stalin, was a Stalin who said,
Starting point is 08:24:05 sometimes nothing happens, decades and decades and weeks and things like that. It was Lenin, yeah. Yeah, Lenin, yeah. But, yeah, Lenin was much smarter than Stalin. But the, if you would, have told me a year ago that Twitter would be like it is right now, I thought you were insane. If you had told me a year ago that people who were saying a year ago, Twitter isn't real life, are like Twitter is the public square.
Starting point is 08:24:41 It is the political, it's the political realm. I mean, who could have first seen it? I know I didn't It's crazy how things can change And it's and it's it's it's It's Yeah it's just it's crazy how how How fast things can change
Starting point is 08:25:06 You know people And this is this is the great lesson that you know The greatest quote of all of Spangler Not optimism is cowardice That's that's I think that's you know That that kind of plays into the stock Dale Paradox a little bit. I don't know if you're familiar with that. That whole sort of optimism is cowardice kind of thing. To me, optimism is acknowledging the grim reality of your
Starting point is 08:25:31 situation and having faith you'll succeed regardless. That's what optimism is to me. It's not deluding yourself into thinking that things are all just going to be a-okay. It's things can be okay if I can make it through this. You know, that's what, and that's faith. That's faith. That's faith. But one of the other great Spangler quotes is this. You know, history is not this, and I'm paraphrasing here, I'm not actually directly quoting him, but history is not a slow and gradual change. It is constantly oscillating from catastrophe to catastrophe.
Starting point is 08:26:17 Yeah. Yeah. It's really, it seems like you're only going to get real change when there's a state of exception. Yeah. And that's when a disaster is happening. Yeah. So, yeah. All right.
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Starting point is 08:28:45 We're going to follow right up on culture parasitism with cultural. culture distortion and maybe even culture retardation if we can have the if we have the time how you don't paul i'm very well mr pete how about yourself doing good doing good thank you for making the time to do this um i know that you're uh you're on your phone making concessions today but uh thank you thank you well i hope i hope the audio quality is good enough for the listeners i've gotten some complaints about my microphone actuallys and you know when i do my twitter spaces sometimes I do them on my microphone and then I do them on my phone speaker and everyone always tells me that when I do them on my phone speaker, the audio quality is better. So I guess that's
Starting point is 08:29:27 everything you need to know. This sounds pretty damn good. All right, let me share the screen and jump right in. All right, going to start right now. Culture distortion. The mighty destiny of a high culture has the same power over the culture organism as the plant destiny over the plant, the human destiny over a human being. This power, vast and inwardly undeniable, though it may be, nevertheless is not absolute. It is organic, and an organism is a relationship of an inner to an outer, a microcosm to a macrocosm.
Starting point is 08:30:03 While no inner force can prevail against the destiny of the organism, outer forces sometimes can, on all planes of life, bring about disease and death of the organism. The microorganisms that penetrate into the body of a man bring about illness for reason of the fact that their life conditions are entirely different from those of the man. Their welfare means his doom. They are an outer force,
Starting point is 08:30:29 even though they are working from the inside of the human organism. Outer is thus seen to be a spiritual and not a spatial term. That is, outside, which has separate existence, no matter how it may happen to be physically. Everything with one destiny is one. Anything with another destiny is other. It is not geography which determines, but spirituality. In war, a traitor within the fortress may be as valuable to the besieging army as half of its numbers.
Starting point is 08:31:02 He is outer, even though he is within. Life is the process of actualizing the possible, but life is multiform and organisms by actualizing their own possibilities, destroy other organisms. Animals devour plants. Plants destroy one another. Human beings lay waste entire species and slaughter millions of animals. High cultures by their existence evoke negative impulses from outside populations. Those who do not share this culture feeling, which confer such unquestioned superiority on its possessors, instinctively determined to annihilate it. The more powerful the pressure, the high culture on the outer populations, the more nihilistic is the negative feeling which
Starting point is 08:31:50 forms in the underpopulations. The more extensive the culture expansion geographically, the wider it spreads through the world, the wider it spreads through the world the eternal will to annihilate among the extracultural peoples. Life forms are hostile to one another. The fulfillment of one is a demise of a thousand others. This is another way of saying that Life is war. So with these two paragraphs here, those top two paragraphs that Yaki is talking about, we have to kind of return to, as always, we need to remind the listener the framework Yaki is working from within.
Starting point is 08:32:28 This is the Spanglarian framework, which looks at a high culture as an organism unto itself. It's a super personal organism that's above the level of man as animal. Man as animal is, you know, like yourself and me, Mr. Pete. It's two people with individual lives. And he talks about this later on in the piece, but he'll talk about destiny a lot, and he'll define that later on.
Starting point is 08:32:54 We're not going to get into that right now. But in essence, when an organism seeks to actualize itself, basically to become what it is, to realize its potentials, this is always at the expense of other organisms. You know, he concludes that line,
Starting point is 08:33:14 by saying, this is another way of saying that life is war. Life is war. In order for a human being or any life at all to perpetuate itself other than plant life, you need to kill and consume other organisms. By killing and consuming other
Starting point is 08:33:31 organisms, you basically give yourself the life energy to continue living. This is fundamental aspects of reality. The same thing is true for high cultures. You know, for a human being to live, to grow old, to get a profession, to make some sort of imprint on the world, to do something with their life, they need to do that. For a high culture to reach its logical conclusion, to reach the perfection of all of its culture forms in all of the various fields, art, science, mathematics, philosophy, history, warfare, economics, etc., it needs to do this at the expense of other cultures, of other peoples.
Starting point is 08:34:14 All right, and so this is what Yaqui is talking about, and this is the frame that we're getting into, and this has happened various times in world history. Okay. Moving on. A high culture is no exception to this great life regularity. Its existence destroys other forms, and on the other hand, throughout its entire existence, it is engaged in an existential battle against the outsider. On this high plane of contemplation, the attempt to distinguish between offensive and defensive, aggressive, and resisting, is seen dearly to be nonsense. It is a pseudo-legal trick of rationalist conjurers lost in hyper-intellectualism and hostile to life. Defense is aggression, aggression is defense. The question of who strikes first in a war is on the same level of as who strikes first in a boxing contest. The 20th century leaves all this can't, stupidity, hypocrisy, and legalistic leisure domain behind it as it strides forward to a century of warfare, the most powerful and unrelenting
Starting point is 08:35:21 of all wars hitherto. But as it faces its most trying period, the period that will demand every fiber of its spiritual reserves and every atom of its physical resources, it is gravely ill. It is suffering from culture, Distortion. Culture distortion is the condition in which outer life forms are warping the culture from its true life path. Just as a human illness may render a man or to combat, so may a culture illness, and this is precisely what happened to the West after the turn of the 20th century, culture distortion must be clearly understood by the Western civilization. So kind of reminding us of our previous couple of parts,
Starting point is 08:36:10 culture distortion is actively caused by culture parasitism. What is culture parasitism? Culture parasitism is whenever you have a foreign entity within the body of a culture. All right, this is, you know, we've used the metaphor, Mr. Pete, of a virus entering a human body. That's a foreign entity. It distorts the functions of the cells that it comes in contact with, which are a part of the body of the organism. The same thing happens with culture parasitism
Starting point is 08:36:43 when any individuals of a foreign culture, of an external cultural force, are within the body or begin distorting the body of another culture. And this, you know, by siphoning off the resources, the talent, the human lives that cultural parasitism does, it then causes culture distortion. Think of culture distortion the same way you would think of a tumor. All right.
Starting point is 08:37:11 What is a tumor? A tumor is incorrectly, it's a massive concentration of incorrectly replicating cells. Those incorrectly replicating cells are siphoning off all of the resources that the rest of the body needs in order to function, and they're funneling it essentially into nothing, as a matter of fact, into less than nothing, into something that actively harms the rest of the organism. Does that make sense to you, Mr. Pete? Yes, absolutely. All right, let us continue.
Starting point is 08:37:44 It has already been seen that the word outer does not have a geographic meaning when used in the domain of the organic. The phenomenon of culture distortion is the result of outer forces at work within the body of the culture, participating in its public life and policy, directing its energy to problems that have no relations to its inner task, turning its forces physical and spiritual to alien problems. A moment's thought showed the impossibility of such a culture illness arising during the time of the strict culture before the turn of civilization. During those days, the forms of the culture in all directions of life were so highly developed that they
Starting point is 08:38:27 not only required highly gifted souls to master them, but they mastered these souls in the same process. No European thinker, artist, or man of action could, in the 17th century, have tried to focus European energy onto Asiatic thought, art, or action forms. Such a thing might have existed as an imaginative possibility, but it is doubtful whether it was possible in actuality. At any rate, it did not occur for 800 years in the West, except in its rudimentary beginnings. We cannot see Cromwell, Oxenstirna, or Olden Barnabelt concerning himself with the restoration of the Abbasid dynasty in Asia Minor or the driving out of the usurping Manchus from the ruins of the Chinese petrofact.
Starting point is 08:39:17 But if a European statesman had successfully directed Western energy into such a totally alien sterile enterprise, it would have been culture distortion. If an artist had managed to turn Western oil painting into the style of Egypt, Egyptian linear painting or of classical sculpture, that would also have been culture distortion. Future volumes of Western history philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries will trace out fully the superficially distorting effects in architecture, literature, and economic theorizing of the classicist mania introduced by Winkleman in the 18th century. So what Yaqui is talking about here, he is naming basically forms that these sort of cultural tumors, if you will, can take shape. You know, what does it have to do with
Starting point is 08:40:06 Western culture that we're trying to restore the Abbasids or drive out the Manchus? That's not a Western thing. All right. Its consequences upon us are entirely material. It is outside of our cultural horizon. It only becomes something we care about when it enters our body of the culture and siphons our resources away from our primary objectives and goals towards other ends. All right. Let's talk about something more modern, Mr. Pete. The DEI push is a cultural cancer. It siphons resources, human capital, physical capital, physical land itself, space in academia,
Starting point is 08:40:46 and other cultural organs, and it turns them in an entirely self-killing sort of way. Holocaust studies is another one. Liberalism. Liberalism in its sort of taken outside of where it was invented by outside of itself as a phenomenon of the way the English organized themselves.
Starting point is 08:41:08 Liberalism in the sense of rationalism, rationalism not the rights of Englishmen, which is a Western culture form. Rationalism in and of itself is also is the greatest of these cultural tumors because it's actually inherently life-denying. it does not further any sort of
Starting point is 08:41:27 it does not further any sort of cultural goals it actually seeks to siphon off resources in this pursuit of pure objectivity whatever that is in order to basically perpetuate its own existence at the expense of the wider body of the culture any thoughts on that Mr. Pete
Starting point is 08:41:45 no I think your your examples are perfect I'm sure when I was reading that people came up with other examples on their own So, all right, let's push on. They will also list the innumerable distortions arising from culture parasitism during the rationalist period 1750 to 1950 of the various life aspects of the West, artistic, religious, philosophical, scientific, and in the realm of action. This work is concerned with actions and directs itself mainly to the phenomena of
Starting point is 08:42:16 distortion of the present and the immediate future, that is, the next hundred years. In the presentation of the articulation of a high culture, it was seen that not all of the population in the culture area is available to the idea. This is quite exclusive of parasitic phenomena. The higher physically, more sensitive stratum, which bears the culture idea and translates it into progressive actuality, is completely available to the idea, but the availability is progressively less as one moves downward in the body of the culture. Downward means, of course, not economically or socially, but spiritually.
Starting point is 08:42:57 Thus a man from the lowest possible spiritual stratum may be found in a high position like the Monster Marat. Such individuals belong to no other culture, even a dead one of the past, and apparently are members of the culture, but in their souls they wish to destroy all formative life. Their motives do not matter, for their orientation is obvious. such individuals who make up a whole large stratum during these centuries are simply below the culture. They are only physically within the body of the culture. They express themselves in England
Starting point is 08:43:33 in the phenomena of the Order of Watt Tyler's Rebellion and Jack Cade's Rebellion in the 16th century peasant wars in Germany in the French Terror of 1793 and the commune of 1871. When Germany existed as a 19th century nation, This stratum below the culture was known as Derdus Michel. Phenomena of this type must not be confused with culture parasitism. Things like the Michelle element, which exists all through Europe and not only in the former German nation, as simply below, but they are not per se alien.
Starting point is 08:44:11 They are an organic part of every culture, but parasitism occurs only fortuitously and not with necessity. The Michelle element of a culture is not a pathology and is not a culture menace in itself. Its sole danger is that it is serviceable to the will to annihilate, whether this springs up autopathically, as in liberalism, democracy, communism, or exopathically, as in the case of the extrater European forces which brought about during the age of world wars, the nadir of the Western civilization. So what Yaqui is talking about here is I'm trying to think of
Starting point is 08:44:56 I think the best example to use talking about this is like talking about a human body and then scaling it up to a culture I'm trying to think of what is an equivalent thing The first one that comes to mind is sort of body fat excess body fat excess body fat is not a virus all right it's not outside of your cultural body it's not something foreign it's something that's like dead weight and is actually oftentimes actively harmful to you i'm sure people who know more about biology than me can come up with something that is you know
Starting point is 08:45:33 not foreign to your body but it is still you know harmful to your body if it gets overproduced and the rest of your body actually fights to reduce your own body's production of this as much as possible but what culture parasitism is is when once again i have to keep emphasizing this word mr pete because we've all been conditioned to be really afraid when we say this when something foreign enters into your bloodstream enters into your body foreign all right that is the key thing here it is something that is another organism entirely all right that is what culture parasitism is and what causes culture distortion. It is when
Starting point is 08:46:17 a foreign entity starts hijacking the functions of your body, not just the refuse that your own body produces or that is found within your own body. Right. And when he mentions that it can spring up
Starting point is 08:46:32 apathically as in liberalism, democracy, communism, basically it's liberalism just a very crude example. well we need every immigrant diversity is our strength
Starting point is 08:46:49 and why shouldn't people be allowed I mean borders are just manmade constructs people should be allowed to cross borders it's crude but I mean that's exactly what he it's exactly what he's talking about is you're allowing somebody from another culture
Starting point is 08:47:05 to come in and are they buying are they becoming a part of the strategy Stroudam. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does. And, you know, and the thing is, is that another part of that is that both communism and liberalism are inherently, you know, they are Western culture forms. They are anti-cultural and they're bent, but they find their origins in the West. They play on Western assumptions, Western worldviews. As Yaqui, you talked about in a couple of previous chapters, Western. Western, actually, you know, if you this is, you know, no culture
Starting point is 08:47:46 is perfect, every culture has flaws. Westerners are extremely fascinated by the foreign and you can take advantage of this, as has been done by the extra European forces. You can take this to a certain
Starting point is 08:48:02 extent, but liberalism and communism in their ideological assumptions are culturally Western. They are just, they're like an autoimmune disease that the West is self-generates, essentially, if that makes sense to you, Mr. Pete. Yeah, a friend of mine said that Western Europeans have a pathological altruism. That's their greatest weakness, and that's really, you know, this is the thing Yaki is talking
Starting point is 08:48:33 about here, is that earlier in the section, he talked about how the extra European forces will take advantage of everything, and as the West's desire to fulfill its increases, their desire to destroy the West increases one to one with it. So, you know, the more we expand across the planet, the more we actually turn everyone who is not us against our expansion.
Starting point is 08:48:55 All right, it's one to one. And this is kind of, and they will use, because they're not, you know, you have to understand this, Yaki keeps emphasizing this throughout the chapter. This is not born out of hate. Hate is personal and emotional.
Starting point is 08:49:12 is not hate. And these people, these foreigners, they are not stupid. And they do understand us to the point where they know what our strengths and what our weaknesses are. They know what battles to fight us on and what battles not to. And that's why the subversion has to be such. It has to be subversion over a long period of time. All right. Onward. In that very situation, the European Michelle showed its potentialities for destruction. One section of it worship the primitivity of Russian vandalism, the other the spiritual putrefying disease of Hollywoodism. It was solely by virtue of this European Michelle Stratum that the extra-European forces were able to split Europe between them, physically and spiritually. This European Michelle, with its attachment to the formless, brought Europe down before the barbarian and the distortor.
Starting point is 08:50:09 In its supreme hatred of grandeur and creativeness, it even allowed itself to be formed into military movements within Europe to sabotage Europe and work for the military victory of the barbarian during the Second World War. After the war, I learned that its fate was, after all, bound up with the creative forces of the culture, for this element was starved, frozen, and looted, along with the collective body of Europe in the gruesome aftermath of the victory of the barbarians and distortors.
Starting point is 08:50:39 So, you know, the Second World War, Thomas, you know, on a lot of your recent series, Thomas will often say the West went down in 1945. And that's kind of the key pivotal moment you have to understand here is that this was a two-pronged force coming from two different directions. The Soviet Union was the more obvious traditional barbaric foreigner element. You know, as Spengler says in the hour decision, Eastern hordes equipped with Western techniques. but the distortor from the further west which had hijacked the United States by this point was far more insidious and could even appear it could even slip past most
Starting point is 08:51:25 Europeans uncanny valley defenses as appearing almost quasi-European in its organization and its rhetoric and its ideology both of them were necessary to bring down Europe if it had just been one or the other it would have resulted in either a European victory or at the very least a stalemate.
Starting point is 08:51:44 However, both of them were utilized simultaneously to bring down European civilization in the mid-century conflict. So that's kind of what Yaqui is talking about here. I have no – I'm trying to think – I mean, I don't know if you could say the Soviets themselves were culture disorders. I mean, Hollywoodism, wow, I wonder what he means by that. Hollywoodism is far more of a good example of what the culture distortion is because it's taking at least the outward appearance of Western cultural forms and then slightly tweaking and manipulating them into other directions. Understood. All right. Part two.
Starting point is 08:52:28 The destiny of a living organism must not be confused with the entirely opposite idea of predestination. The latter is a cause. idea, both in its religious form of Calvinism or in its materialist form of mechanism and determinism. Destiny is not causal, but organic necessity. Causality is a form of thought, but destiny is the form of the living. Causality claims absolute necessity, but destiny is only inner necessity, and every child who is accidentally killed at play shows that destiny is subject to outer incident destiny merely says if it is to be it will be this way and no other every man is destined to grow old but many will not fulfill this destiny let no one claim to understand the
Starting point is 08:53:15 destiny idea if he regards it as a sort of hidden causality a form of predestination so this i know i just talked for a little bit but this is an extremely important paragraph that you have to Grock in order to understand the Spanglarian assertion of what destiny is. So when Yaki uses the word destiny, everyone's mind immediately goes to this sort of Calvinist God preordained everything, which is unequivocally true. That's in Romans 8. Go find that. However, you know, that's not a Calvinist exclusive thing. The Calvinist didn't invent predestination. What he's actually talking about here is a sort of very organic way of looking at life, all right? It's an organic way of looking at life.
Starting point is 08:54:07 Mr. Pete, if you plant a sapling in your lawn and assuming that nothing bad happens to it, what will that, let's say an oak sapling, what will it eventually grow into? It will eventually grow into an oak. Exactly. That is what destiny is. Destiny is if this sapling that I've planted gets adequate sunlight, adequate nutrients from the soil, adequate water, it will then become itself.
Starting point is 08:54:37 It will become the fully actualized version of itself, which is a fully grown oak tree. It's the same thing with a human being. What will a man become if he gets adequate food, water, shelter, mentorship, teaching, etc. He will go from a boy
Starting point is 08:54:55 into a fully formed man, and then he will eventually grow old and wither and die. That is what Destiny is, and what Yaki is talking about here. It's the same thing for a high culture. A high culture begins in its nascent stages as like, you know, if you want a really good book, that kind of outlines what the early Western high culture looked like. Read Henry Adams' Mont Saint-Michel and the Chautra.
Starting point is 08:55:20 That is probably the best single description you will get of the earliest iteration of the Western high culture, which Henry Adams writes about when he's writing about specifically Norman civilization at particularly the landmark of Mont Saint-Michel, which is I think, Mr. Pete, you may disagree with me, but I think the biggest microcosm of Western culture, I don't know necessarily about Western civilization, but the biggest microcosm of Western culture is actually Mont Saint-Michel itself.
Starting point is 08:55:51 it's just the whole of the West encapsulated into like one single landmark, one single thing and Henry Adams has this great line what is it, it's I think war and peace, church and state, God and man all are made one at Mont Saint-Michelle and that is the epitome of the sort of Western culture soul
Starting point is 08:56:16 is that sort of unity between these seemingly conflicting elements in this one beautiful expression. I know I'm sucking the air out of the room here, but this is extremely important to understand. When Yaki says a child who gets killed at play, yeah, he's obviously not going to grow into a man. That's called incident within the Spanglerian framework. It is an incident that a teenager gets into a car crash
Starting point is 08:56:41 and never becomes a college football star. It is an incident that a sapling gets chopped down after a few years of its planting to be made into a fence or something like that. That's incident. You can't predict that. You can't control that.
Starting point is 08:56:57 And the same thing occurs to Western high cultures. There was a Meso-American Western high culture in Latin America with the Aztecs and the Incas that was kind of strangled in the crib by Cortez and Pizarro. That's an incident.
Starting point is 08:57:13 All right. This has happened to high cultures in the past. and so when Yaki is describing the Western high culture here it is the destiny of the Western high culture to actualize itself along a certain path assuming something like culture parasitism and culture distortion
Starting point is 08:57:32 does not end that goal I've talked for a lot, let's keep going okay I think that was important though because it explains a lot and I think that not having a working knowledge of Calvinism and predestination,
Starting point is 08:57:51 just to be able to relate that to things other than scripture, than satirology harms people. They don't really they don't understand destiny. They think that everything has to be changed, that everything that if things aren't changing, they're not getting better. And I think this paragraph right here, hopefully,
Starting point is 08:58:26 and everything that we're reading will help people realize that that's not true when it comes to culture. Well, the thing is, you know, just like with a tree, and I know we've got to keep going, but like culture is an organic thing like a tree. You don't need to actively contribute to changing it. It will change without you, intervening. You don't need to actively force your child
Starting point is 08:58:48 to grow into a man. That'll just happen on its own. You just have to nurture it and preserve it and steward it and try to add something to it in your little way as you can. Not just seek to totally revamp the whole course or try to think you can completely reinvent something and make something that has one nature entirely contrary to its own nature. All right. At the beginning of treatment of the subject of cultural vitalism, it was said that if the extracultural forces had
Starting point is 08:59:20 succeeded after the Second World War in destroying the entire culture-bearing stratum of Europe, the stratum would have once again been present in 30 to 60 years. The statement was, of course, hypothetical, for this did not occur. The mere fact that someone is writing and someone is reading this is proof that they did not succeed. The basis of that statement, was the tremendous, every youthful vigor of high culture. The West has a future, and this future must be inwardly fulfilled. Inwardly is distinguished from outwardly, for whether or not the West fulfills its outward potentialities is as much a matter of incident as it is of destiny.
Starting point is 09:00:02 The inner future of the West contains many necessary developments, such as the rebirth of religion, the attainment of new heights and techniques and chemistry, perfection of legal and administrative thinking, and others. These could all be fulfilled under a permanent occupation by barbarians from other continents. The grandest, mightiest side of life, that of action of war and politics, would express itself in such a regime in inexorable continuing bitter revolts against the barbarian. Instead of planting the flag of the West at the Antipodes, it would be reduced to trying to free the sacred soil of the West from the heel.
Starting point is 09:00:41 of the primitive. It was therefore no causal predestination thought when it was said that the culture bearing stratum would reconstitute itself even though every one of its contemporary members were entirely wiped out by scaffold trials. So he was
Starting point is 09:00:57 talking about Nuremberg there which Yaki actually got hired on to try. But also what he's talking about is a lot of people, if they look into Yaki, they find very quickly that he supported a Soviet victory
Starting point is 09:01:13 in the Cold War over the United States nevertheless he believed it would not occur he supported a Soviet victory because the Soviet Union the Russian high culture was a very or the Russian nascent high culture is a very primitive one it is not yet begun to develop itself
Starting point is 09:01:29 and he believed that a sophisticated high culture cannot be extinguished by a primitive high culture because the primitive high culture only occupies them militarily, which is the most primitive way, and it's actually the easiest one to overthrow, as we have seen in history.
Starting point is 09:01:51 He actually brings up the example of the culture distortors, or the example of the culture distortors, is kind of what he's thinking about when he's talking about this, because like it or not, they were the fulfillment of a, and they were far more sophisticated in cultural terms than the Western Europeans were. That's why they weren't able to be,
Starting point is 09:02:11 extinguished by the Western European civilization because they were the fulfillment of the earlier Arabian high culture. They were a perfected high culture that reached its peak that was left over within the earlier Western high culture. The Westerners are now at a similar level of sophistication to them, but this was not the case in the 19th century, even the early 20th century. But that's why he supported the Soviet Union over the United States because he felt that primitive occupation could be recovered from culture distortion was much harder to recover from well that
Starting point is 09:02:50 that just blows civic nationalists people who grew up in knowing that the Soviet Union was the ultimate evil it just blows their minds they don't they don't realize that the real ultimate evil was here all along
Starting point is 09:03:07 well you know I don't know if I would call them ultimate evils but it's like you know it's it's the matter of you know to the high culture I mean to to the formation of a high culture yes yeah that's true
Starting point is 09:03:23 I mean the thing about it though is and the way I look at it Pete what's easier to recover from getting punched across the face or bone cancer yeah getting punched in the face yeah obviously be back within five minutes
Starting point is 09:03:40 contained in that statement was this either the West will fulfill its tremendous world embracing destiny of unlimited absolute imperialism or else all this energy will go into warfare on European soil against the alien and whatever European elements he finds serviceable to him as is true of all wars hatred is disassociated with the necessity of this process
Starting point is 09:04:06 wars do not come from hatred but from organic rhythms the choice is not between war and peace but between a culture forwarding war or a culture distorting war if Europe remains under the outer forces they will be sending
Starting point is 09:04:22 their soldiers into a graveyard for the might of the West is not to be annulled by a mountain of propaganda mass armies of occupying soldiers nor by millions of traitors in the Michelle Stratum for two centuries the streams of blood will flow irrespective of the wish of any human being.
Starting point is 09:04:39 It is the nature of super personal organisms to express their possibilities. If it cannot be done in one way, it will be done in another. This idea conscripts men, and it discharges them only by their individual deaths. It has no legal hold on them, no formal allegiance, no threat of court-martial. Its claim on them is total. It is a selective conscription, the higher a man's gifts, the stronger is the by on which the idea lays on him. What have the barbarians and distortors
Starting point is 09:05:10 to oppose this? Against their murderous Russian slaves, their savage Negroes, their hapless, go-home conscripts from North America, Europe pits its unconquerable super-personal superiority. Europe stands at the beginning of a world historical process. The end is not in sight.
Starting point is 09:05:27 When, or even whether, complete success will come is not visible. Perhaps before it is over, the outer forces will have mobilized the swarming, pollulating masses of China and India against the body of the Western civilization. This kind of thing does not affect the continuation of the conflict, but only its size. It is absolutely necessary to the continuance of the subjugation of Europe that the outsiders have large numbers, whole societies, groups, strata, remnants of dead 19th century nations, of domestic European populations available for their purposes.
Starting point is 09:06:09 Against a united Europe, they could never have made their way in, and only against a divided Europe can they maintain themselves. Split, divide, distinguish. This is the technique of conquest. Reseract old ideas, old slogans, now quite dead, in the battle to turn European against European, but work always with the weak, culturalist stratum against the strong bearers and appreciators of culture.
Starting point is 09:06:34 they must be tried and hanged. This availability of the under strata of the culture to outside forces is one type and the most dangerous of that form of culture pathology called culture distortion. It is closely related, however, to another type called culture retardation. And that's the next chapter. You know, it's funny, it's funny Yaki predicted this in 1948 because in our current day, we are starting to see the mobilization of the pollulating masses of China and specifically India against the Western
Starting point is 09:07:12 European forces. Isn't it funny, Pete, that all of a sudden Indians are entering politics everywhere? I think I made this point in an OGC stream. I said that you look at Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswani in a debate for U.S. President up on stage, And am I the only one who looks at the British Isles and goes, oh, they're trying to do that here? Yeah, it's exactly the case there. And I mean, Britain is the experimental ground. If they can try to make it work in Britain, they bring it over here and try to make it work here. I think the thing about it is that the extra European forces have to rely more and more and more on these foreign populations
Starting point is 09:08:00 because there are fewer and fewer and fewer individuals within the Western populations. Gen X was the first. A lot of people like to shit on Gen X. I really, I really. Gen X, you know, Thomas himself make it mad at me for this, but the more I look into Gen X, the more I realize, man, these people were so unfairly maligned,
Starting point is 09:08:24 and I look at the cultural circumstances they had to deal with, they're the largest generation. they were the first generation like all the skinheads were gen X you know at least their counterculture was the first one to start bringing back some actual culture into the west i digress um but you are seeing especially amongst younger people um more and more and more of a break from this from the ideas of culture distortion now they're much weakened especially with the zoomers zoomers don't know anything about anything all right but they do know who's responsible for a
Starting point is 09:08:59 most of the problems in the West. They can tell you that. At least one portion of them can. So, and you know, maybe it's even too West to, too late to save the West, but we can still save some sort of remnant of it or reverse engineer some continuation of it with an attempt to continue the cultural mission even in a small section of the world. I have to be optimistic about this. A lot of people bring up that Spangler quote optimism as cowardice and they try to say that, you know, oh, it's already
Starting point is 09:09:34 over or I'm delusional or something like that. But, you know, look, I'm, you know, it's not a question of black pilling versus white pilling. It's a question of we can't, and Yaki says this earlier and we can get through culture retardation, I think, before the end of the stream
Starting point is 09:09:50 because it's only, I think, four pages. But what is it? We can only control the West's internal, or at least whatever remains of the Western culture soul, their internal constitution. If America is to be its own culture soul, it will be a far-flung thing away from here. For now, all we can do is work with what the West is. We need to get ourselves internally realigned to our own cultural path. We can't control external incident. If we all die in a war against the teeming third world masses, then we can't control that. That's all up to the will of God.
Starting point is 09:10:24 But what we can control is internally what we are, and that's what Yaki was trying to bring about, was trying to remind us of. All right, let's move forward to this, and this is actually rather short. I don't even think it's four pages, so. Culture retardation as a form of culture distortion. In the study of the articulation of a culture, the ceaseless battle between tradition and innovation begins. This is normal and accompanies the culture for, from the feudal union to Caesarism, from Gothic Cathedral to skyscraper,
Starting point is 09:11:00 from Anselm to the philosopher of this age, from Schutz to Wagner. The unending struggle that takes place within the form of the culture and is thus not a disease form, for even the conflict itself in each case is strictly cast in the culture mold. It occurred to no one during the period 1,000 to 1800, when engaged in a battle
Starting point is 09:11:22 against another Western idea that he must prevent it from realization even at the cost of destruction of the culture. To be specific, no European power and no European statesmen would have delivered all Europe to the barbarian merely in order to defeat another power or statesman. On the contrary, when the barbarian appeared at the gates, all Europe opposed him as had finally united against the Turk at the moment of greatest danger.
Starting point is 09:11:50 after the defeat of the European army at Nacopoulos at the turn of the 15th century, the Osmanli Sultan byazid swore an oath that he would not rest until he had turned St. Peter's into a stable for his horse. At that period of Western history, that was not to be. The total domination of the West by the outer forces of annihilation had to wait until almost the middle of the 20th century. It only came about because certain elements in the West, referred to ruin all Europe rather than allow Europe to pass into the next
Starting point is 09:12:24 cultural stage, the resurgence of authority. Any such historical phenomenon as this does not appear in a moment. The beginnings of this terrible division of the West are found in the origins of rationalism. Even in the wars of the Austrian succession, there is a new ferocity which presage the coming split. In that war, the Allies actually planned completely to partition the territory of the culture nation of Prussia, participating were to be Sweden, Austria, France, and Russia. It is true that during the Romanov regime from the 17th to the 20th century, Russia figured
Starting point is 09:13:02 as a state and nation of the Western style. Nevertheless, there were open misgivings on both sides, and there was a difference between partitioning of Asiatic borderland like Poland between Western powers and Russia and the sharing of the mother's soil of Europe with Russia. So what Spengler is kind of talking about here in the 20th century... Spangler? Sorry, Yaki. It might as well be. He's just restating Spengler.
Starting point is 09:13:29 I was thinking of the same thing. He's just restating Spengler here. But yes, it's like, you know, what Yaki is talking about here, in that first part, he was talking about how Europe united against the Turks. He also says it would be irrational for one part of the civilization to completely abandon the whole civilization just to shame another power within that civilization. Thomas makes this point, this is what Great Britain did. This is what Great Britain did in the 20th century. And that's because Great Britain was possessed in clinging on to this dead
Starting point is 09:14:03 cultural idea of nations from the 19th century, this very rationalistic idea from the 19th century. That's what caused them to do it, was ideology, was being possessed by a earlier culture idea. and using that, it's like, it's like, you know, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if we've got browns in London. We're not speaking German only. And that's kind of the, that's kind of the, you know, mindset they take with it is, you know, well, at least we aren't speaking German.
Starting point is 09:14:35 And it's like, huh? You know, and it's taken this long, Mr. Pete, I guess, for the true folly of that decision. in the twilight of the lives of the men who fought the war, I challenge you to find one World War II veteran who looks at the war today and doesn't think maybe we were misled in this. And there's probably some, but a lot of World War II veterans, and you see this are like, you know, I'm disgusted by the world that, you know,
Starting point is 09:15:05 that this war created. And you can hold those veterans to account for going and fighting. At the same time, you know, it's pretty difficult to withstand an onslaught of culture distorting propaganda when you have no real cultural strength to resist it. So I don't know. But this is what happened in the 20th century.
Starting point is 09:15:28 And you know, and there he starts, you know, he starts, like there were threats of this before the 20th century, like with the supposedly European Romanov Russians that he talks about.
Starting point is 09:15:41 All right. In the Battle of the Dynasts and traditionalists against Napoleon the tendency went further and in 1815 at the Vienna Congress the Tsar with his troops occupying half of Europe the fact of which he frequently reminded the European monarchs
Starting point is 09:15:57 was able to pose as the savior of the West. Thus the First in Bund and England were actually on the verge of the culturally pathological when they pushed their battle against a Western sovereign Napoleon
Starting point is 09:16:13 to the point where they admitted Russian troops to European capitals. It is, however, quite certain that the Western veneer of Russia was determining in that manner. The Frustardin and Pitts, England, would not have admitted a nihilistic Russia or the Turk to Europe as a means of defeating Pollyan and therewith themselves. But the tendency did not stop there. In the First World War, between the two European nations, both in the 19th century style, England and Germany, England again embraced Russia as an ally and painted the Romanov despotism
Starting point is 09:16:51 as a democracy before Europe and America. Fortunately for the West, there was a counter-tenancy, and when the Bolsheviks started his westward march after the war, he was thrown back by a Western coalition before Warsaw in 1920. In the armies against Bolshevism were Germans, French, English, but yesterday's enemies, today united against the barbarian. Even the Americans sent two expeditions against the Bolshevik, one to Archangel and one to eastern Siberia. During the period of preparation of the Second World War, 1919 to 1939, it appeared at several moments as though the coming war would take the form of a struggle by certain of the powers of the West, for the West was still divided at that time into a collection of tiny states. against Russia, while others of these petty states would remain neutral, giving economic assistance. Such a moment occurred in June 1936 when the leading four among these petty states signed a protocol
Starting point is 09:17:53 embodying a general understanding amongst themselves. This protocol was never ratified. No less than 20 separate efforts were made between 1933 and 1939 by the bearers of the 20th century idea to affect a general understanding with those of the petty states still in the grip of the 19th century idea, which was already by then manifesting rigor mortis. Naturally, the leading elements of the culture-bearing stratum in these latter petty states were in contact with a new idea, but certain elements were opposed by reason of their spiritual insensitivity,
Starting point is 09:18:30 their materialistic shallowness, their negativistic jealousy, their firm roots in the, the past, and to put the most important reason last, by reason of their material interests in the perpetuation of the 19th century type of international and domestic economy from which they alone were profiting and from which the entire Western civilization was suffering. These latter elements decided to allow the division of Europe between Asia and America rather than to embrace the future of the West. When the struggle between tradition and innovation, the old and the new, natural and normal in every culture, reaches this degree.
Starting point is 09:19:12 It is culture pathology. This form of culture pathology is definable by the intensity of the hatred of the future of the culture it shows. It reaches the point of self-destruction rather than giving up the rigid past to the vigorous future. When the conservative elements come to hate the creative elements so intensely that they will do anything to encompass their military defeat, including self-destruction, it becomes culture treason and is classified as an acute form of culture pathology.
Starting point is 09:19:42 The hallmark of this culture disease is solely the question of degree. Every new idea in the culture has been opposed in architecture, music, literature, economics, war, and statecraft. But until this horrible outbreak of culture sickness in the 20th century, the opposition to the creative had never attained a totality that can only be adequately described as maniacal. Culture pathological also was the base and servile buckling throughout the Second World War of this sub-Western element to the parasitic forces and barbarian forces to which it had voluntarily submitted in its hatred of Europe and its future. With unforgettable dishonor, it threw millions of Western soldiers to the Russian savages to disappear forever into the unmarked graves of Siberia. This Michelle element cooperated with and aided the barbarian enthusiastically and naively gave him all its secrets, but the same barbarian accepted all the aid without thanks and returned for its suspicion, sabotage, and hatred.
Starting point is 09:20:46 The Michelle element of the West went down with the defeat of the West and its passing under the barbarian and the distortor. The pathology of culture retardation had, in this case, tragic consequences for the representatives of, of the past as well as for those of the future. Actually, they are more tragic, for in the battle for the past against the future, the past is doomed. Eventually, the idea of the future will triumph inwardly, even if its external destiny is frustrated. Mechanism in politics will give way to the future, just as mechanism in biology has long
Starting point is 09:21:20 since yielded. The idea of individuals having power over the gigantic economies of superpersonal organisms is doomed, and this is one of the things that sub-Western future-hating elements wish to save for themselves. Materialism, their world outlook, has given way almost everywhere in the West to historical skepticism, which will make way for mysticism and the rebirth of religion. The most they have salvaged... I want to stop you real quick on that. So historical skepticism lasted, honestly, all the way up until the early 2000s, Pete. it was only beginning about when
Starting point is 09:21:58 Yaki was brought about but this is where post-modernism kind of comes about and all this and even with the 1960s and the hippies you actually already saw the seeds of neo-mysticism we're getting to the point where mysticism is now
Starting point is 09:22:15 you know remember Pete that like in the early 2000s how common it was to meet people who just said yeah I'm an atheist now everyone is like oh well I'm not religious but I'm spiritual that's that's the transition you know atheism is untenable and has been humiliated and it was the idea of the past mysticism is becoming what is it I'm already in in podcasts like
Starting point is 09:22:44 stone choir um like what I'm what Ryan Turnip seed is doing we're starting to see a new serious Christianity rebirthing itself and eventually the rebirth of religion will bring the West, at least internally. We can't, you know, that won't remove
Starting point is 09:23:04 all the foreigners overnight as a lot of people like to point out. Yeah, but we'll get there. You're starting to see this rebirth and I, this is why I'm optimistic because Yaki outlines this. The rebirth of religion is actually what will bring us back into line, I think,
Starting point is 09:23:20 with the sort of culture path that we're supposed to go to? Well, I don't know if this is a reaction to Francis, but surveys that have been done recently within the Catholic Church show that in the past five to seven years, the overwhelming majority of priests that are people that are becoming priests are conservative. I know my priest is conservative as I'll get out. So, I mean, everybody wants a, point to
Starting point is 09:23:50 Francis, yay, but no, look at, look at what the youth are doing, look at what the young leadership is bringing in. And that is, to me, that is a metaphysical reaction to what has been seen since,
Starting point is 09:24:06 you know, Vatican 2 in the case of Catholicism. So, yeah. Always. Yeah. All right. The most they have salvaged from the general destruction is an accumulation of small
Starting point is 09:24:19 personal advantages for themselves. To show their appreciation, the barbarian and the distortor have appointed them their deputies in Europe. How symbolic it was that the puppets who were placed in the formerly important positions in Europe after the Second World War were old men.
Starting point is 09:24:36 They were even old, biologically speaking, but spiritually, they were two centuries old, rooted in the dead parliamentaristic past. It did not matter to the new rulers of Europe that these superannuated appointees lacked vigor and
Starting point is 09:24:52 creativeness. This is in fact precisely why they were chosen. Think of Biden. Anyone with vigor of any sort was carefully scrutinized by the new rulers. Lethargy coupled with oratory was preferred to the will to accomplishment sons the stream of the 19th century patriotic verbiage. This is the result of culture retardation. Without it, the outer forces could never have succeeded in grinding the flower of Western culture
Starting point is 09:25:22 under the heel of their primitivity and stupidity. That's such a great lot. It played, however, only a subordinate role. The study of pathology of any of other organic life forms, plant, animal, and human offer numerous examples of simulinity of disease in which the damage done by one promotes the spread of another. The simultaneously of pneumonia and tuberculosis in the human organism is but one case.
Starting point is 09:25:58 The more serious disease, which was running its course contemporaneously with the culture retardation illness and which was promoted by the latter condition, was an aggravation of culture parasitism, which becomes culture distorting when the parasite takes an active part in the life of the culture. Yeah, I mean, that's, to kind of restate this, this is Yaki basically saying, you know, even within an organism that is, you know, culturally distorted, it still kind of follows along its own life path. And what is it? The power, people have to understand this is that no culturally conscious high culture, no entity that. no entity that is aware of what it is can be brought down by culture distortion because the antibodies are too well built up. This is why when Yaki said at the beginning
Starting point is 09:26:55 of the first passage, this kind of thing didn't happen in the 17th, 16th, and 15th centuries of Europe and even before that, because everyone was really well aware of what Europe was. What is, well, what really is Europe? All right, what is Europe?
Starting point is 09:27:14 It's best understood the European high culture is best understood as the idea of Christendom of all the nations that partook in Christendom and there are sort of half-Slavic mongrel nations that kind of are counted in that as well Croatia is one
Starting point is 09:27:31 Bohemia or the Czech Republic is another one Poland is a third you could argue the Baltic countries as well in Finland and Hungary who are kind of and they're all on the borderlands of foreign entities but you could consider them Western, at least Western enough to mean anything. And they're also small
Starting point is 09:27:50 enough that, you know, it doesn't really matter. But that is what needs to essentially, and that's what Yaqui's advocating for, needs to be revived, is a sense of Western sort of, how could you say, a sense of Western unity of Neo-Christendom. And that'll come with the rebirth of religion about the time of Caesarism as well and that's all that he's talking about here. The extra European forces, at least the culture distortors they were at their most powerful
Starting point is 09:28:25 at the period of rationalism of materialistic economies of economies of scale of all this other stuff with the 20th century nation states that was the high watermark of their power.
Starting point is 09:28:40 Their power is degrading every single year. Anyone with eyes to see can see this. This is why I don't understand black pillars. Like, Musk is outright stating this, because I believe Musk is possessed by the cultural mission of the West, which is, conclusion is space colonization and exploration.
Starting point is 09:28:57 So, this is kind of, what is it? This is what needs to be done. This is what our goal within the cultural mission is. If you're listening to Pete's show, if you're listening to me, talk your ear off, you are possessed by the cultural idea of the West, which
Starting point is 09:29:12 not you know which is subordinate subordinate to the will of god it's like you are carrying out the western cultural mission by listening to this by propagating these ideas by teaching your kids you know and that's what's necessary that's what needs to be done um and it's and really the battlefield is starting to shift into our favor because they've you know their idea the culture distorters ideas their power is entirely held by the ideas of the past the ideas of the future are really the ideas that went down in the 20th century just restored in a different context. Maybe it won't be to the same heights. Maybe it won't be in the same area, but it needs to be. And that's kind of, you know, once again, I try, I really try, Mr. Pete. And I know there's
Starting point is 09:29:58 a lot of people who, you know, they don't, a lot of people don't like where I come from, especially with how friendly I am towards America. But you, Thomas will say this on your streams a lot. You got to take the geopolitical and the cultural situation as it is. All right. Most of us are in America. That's the place where I think we have to start pushing. All right.
Starting point is 09:30:24 And there's a lot of our friends in Europe, they have to push where they are too. I think if we don't do this, if we don't keep doing what we have been doing, the extra European forces will win and the European high culture will go down whenever the next Spangler is born.
Starting point is 09:30:39 with the next high culture and he'll find out high cultures as well just like every culture has had a high cultural thinker when he finds the Western high culture he'll be like oh the Western high culture they died of basically culture parasitism
Starting point is 09:30:56 and culture distortion. That's what killed them. The Romans were just brought down by fire and flame the Mesoamericans were strangled in the crib the Arabians mummified, the Egyptians mummified the Indian and Chinese mummified and the Western died of
Starting point is 09:31:11 disease. I don't want that to be the case. You know, we can't control whether outside forces cause that to happen, but we can control inside forces. You know, anyway, I know that was a lot, Mr. Pete, but that's where I stand on this. Well said, and I think that's where we should end. I think
Starting point is 09:31:27 everybody appreciates your time today, especially since you're recording this outside your normal lodgings. And I will make sure to link to your book. I will make sure to link to the old glory club and continue to promote the hell out of that. But Paul, thank you. As always. And once you get past some great,
Starting point is 09:31:52 great happenings in your life, let's pick up and keep reading this and push forward to looking at a more detailed explanation of what Yaki saw happening. Hey, I'm fully convinced. committed to the cultural idea as are you mr pete our lives are basically in service to this and it's not going to end until we die so yeah whenever whenever you know i guess you could say the incident affecting my life um comes to you know comes to a conclusion we can go back along the path of our own destinies as it were a beautiful incident for sure thank you paul take care thank you mr pete

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