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In the fourth question of his survey, Benjamin asked:
Is psychiatry really a pseudoscience? Is the etiology of schizophrenics/psychotics truly that of parental trauma victims? Are neuroleptics/psychiatric drugs detrimental to health? Do parents cause the vast majority of the DSM-5/ICD behavioural patterns labelled as distinct disorders? Is mental illness environmental in origin? Is the psychiatric genetics position scientifically bankrupt?
Ben and I exchanged a few words in the discussion thread, but he recently added via email:
By the way, on the final (closing) comment by you on ‘Survey’, on Greg Johnson’s inability—even as he proofread it—to take in the information… that’s something I’ve never in my life understood about people. I can see it would really bother you!
They read the extensive full-proof document and they still don’t agree. I can only assume it’s an intelligence lack/dogma thing—some type of faulty methodology that arises from lower emotional intelligence. There’s some type of screen in the way, like a cognitive dissonance, and they just can’t process the evidence (the orthodox bias imposed by society is too great; that or the psychological implications in their own lives of taking it seriously, that private life ‘can of worms’ I mentioned before…).
I mean, of all points you’ve discussed with me (usually me, as not many others participate) that concern psychiatry on WDH—of pretty much all topics discussed there—psychiatry criticism is the most comprehensively debunked by now, with a superb level of detailed evidence, all bases covered, and you still get people somehow not grasping it (or not seeing why it’s important).
The reason racialists block topics we should be discussing, but which are a kind of taboo (for example Nordicism, which wasn’t taboo among Anglo-American eugenicists before WW2), is that the human mind is a restrictive container. There are notions, such as saying, “a fraudulent profession (psychiatry) has been taught in medical schools”, that show that the mind of the normie, or neo-normie racialist, is blocked by iron walls: ideas that simply cannot penetrate the membrane of our reason.
We human beings fortify ourselves in our certainties: for example, that what is taught as science in universities is always science. Often, the “insignificance” of reality doesn’t cause us cognitive dissonance (e.g., that psychiatry presents its central tenet, that mental disorder is a biomedical entity, as an irrefutable hypothesis according to Popper’s litmus test for distinguishing between real science and bogus science).
Sight and hearing can annihilate the believer! That’s why the normie closes his eyes and ears to the harrowing testimonies of the trauma suffered by those who endured terrible abuse in their childhood, which led to their mental disorders as adults: a plain refutation of the psychiatric medical model of mental disorders that, lacking biomarkers (unlike neurology, which does study biomarkers), dogmatically blames the brains of those traumatised by their parents:
of Polyxena
In the sixth question of Benjamin’s survey published yesterday, he asks: “Are we required to reclaim our women by force in the manner of the Sabines?”
As I have already said, if the Aryan male so desired, he could destroy feminism overnight during the racial revolution.
Before feminism, our 19th-century ancestors had more contact with our pre-Christian past than today’s feminised racialists, who find the idea of abducting the contemporary Sabines to found a new Rome appalling: an empire that would resemble Hitler’s dream much more than ancient Rome. But since feminism has already taken over our post-Christian, neo-Christian culture, we will have no choice but brutal solutions:
In the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence stands this sculpture known as The Rape of Polyxena by the artist Pio Fedi, created between 1855 and 1865. Polyxena is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
As a commenter on Twitter recently said, “it is a breathtaking marble celebration of abduction, power, and zero consent!”
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Survey for WDH Regular Readers
by Benjamin
Please answer either “yes” to each question, or limit your “no” response to the best concise argument that you can make. These questions are not intended to be ambiguous.
“Enemies” = non-Aryan racial enemies/Aryan traitors. “I don’t know” is not an acceptable response to any question.
Regarding how I ended my essay about Marco, which I uploaded to this site on April 26, by saying that nutsy people like Marco only hurt themselves but that there are narcissists in the highest spheres of power, let’s listen to what Scott Ritter said in an interview uploaded to YouTube today:
We have to stop viewing this problem [Trump’s crazy policy in the war against Iran] from the standpoint of traditional geopolitics because you’ll never get it right. This is about a mentally ill president. When I say mentally ill, it is a mental illness. When we speak of narcissistic personality disorder, it is literally a mental illness. And this man has an extreme, malignant version of it [Marco’s condition!]. He is literally psychotic. You saw the tweets: eleven posts in a handful of hours, stuff that […] any military person would be relieved of command […]
We’re dealing with a literally insane person, who has surrounded himself with people whose job is to sustain the insanity […] They’re there to stroke their president’s ego which is the worst thing you can do for a narcissist but that’s what happened.
I hate Ritter’s opinions about Hitler, but I like what he says about Trump.
Regarding what the racial right is doing, among other things Benjamin observed yesterday:
…a kind of interesting academic matter to be debated, where people can have ‘opinions’.
One of the sites that shocks me most is Counter-Currents. Both the writers and commenters talk as if the whole thing were academic because the water hasn’t reached up to their necks.
It’s incredible the feeling I get reading that site (and the other white nationalist forums). It’s something like: “These guys aren’t doing anything and they think they’re doing something.”
I think they recently held a meeting in Rome, but it never occurs to them that what they’re doing only makes sense by forming a Nazi party that wants to seize power.
What can be done with these “men” who only complain about what the jews and the niggers and the spics do without lifting a finger in the real world?
If there’s anything that depresses me immensely, it’s the mere existence of these people. But the saddest thing is that the true Aryan man, symbolised by his sword, no longer exists.
You can’t find him anywhere! It is truly the darkest hour for the fair race, and were it not for what comes after the collapse of the dollar—and perhaps peak oil—I would say that this entire website, to quote David Lane, is an “open letter to a dead race”.
nationalists:
When will you stop sinning?
When will you renounce the Judeo-Christian ethics
that have been destroying the Aryan race
since Constantine seized power
—and return to our true Gods?
On Friday, 1 May 2026 in the morning, C.T. wrote:
Does nobody in the UK really think like the heroes of The Turner Diaries?
César
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Dear César,
To answer your question: Absolutely no one—not a person I have ever met; not a person I have encountered online; not a single dissident right online article I have ever read.
You’re right on Nick Griffin. He’s the epitome of Nietzsche’s ‘last man’ (and trying to impose it on others here as a ‘solution’).
There are three options, two of which are false:
• Berk’s dissident right re-migration.
• Nick’s Christian ‘community-building’/Aryan diaspora surrender.
• The West’s Darkest Hour perspective.
But this nation’s men are such filth. I think, more than America, if the UK’s Aryans are to survive, WDH content must reach them.
I think Nick’s rational analysis of politics failure in the article is sound; everything else he writes is rubbish. Also, he has not accounted for how violent, and how anti-white the racial enemies are.
Thomas 2
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My response for this blog:
“Absolutely no one”? Wow! We are truly living in the darkest hour for the white race. Perhaps it’s worth mentioning that I’ve been watching old Sherlock Holmes movies lately and felt a kind of nostalgia for a world where only beautiful whites inhabited that island.
The main culprit behind all this mess is the Aryan man—not the Jew: the latter merely takes advantage of Aryan stupidity—, who has accepted Christian ethics, as is clear in the quotes from Adam Green’s book that I recently posted.
But returning to the English, only Nietzsche portrayed them clearly, although nowadays the Germans themselves—in fact, all the Aryans of the world—have already allowed themselves to be infected by neochristianity. Nietzsche wrote:
In England one must rehabilitate oneself after every little emancipation from theology by showing in a veritably awe-inspiring manner what a moral fanatic one is. That is the penance they pay there. —We others hold otherwise. When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one’s feet.
As readers of this site know, Wokism is essentially atheistic hyper-Christianity from an axiological perspective. In other words, the morality of the New Testament is far more deeply ingrained in today’s atheists than in traditional Christians.
Therefore—
Fuck Xtians & atheists!
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for physical beauty
by Gaedhal
As Richard Carrier now demonstrates, there really was no such thing as “Gnosticism”. All of the early Christian sects were Gnostics to one degree or another. “The Gnostics” were made up, essentially by orthodox apologists/theologians. Thus, the term “musterio”’, is never really translated in our bibles… it is transliterated into “mystery”. However, “musterion”, if translated, means: “secret”. Thus, the New Testament writers believed in secret knowledge, or musteria, and it goes without saying that the belief in secret knowledge is a hallmark of Gnosticisim.
“mustēria”, in Greek—thanks to how the neuter plurals of neuter nouns work, i.e. they sometimes act as a singular mass noun—could then be translated: “a body of secret teachings”. However, “mustēria” is never translated that way, as it would give the game away that early Christianity was a secret society, with a secret body of teaching only for adepts. This is why Jesus taught in parables. To the profane, they only got the surface meaning of the parables, however to the in-group, Jesus’s disciples, the true, often shocking import of what he is saying is only revealed to them. Thus, the non-adepts remain in their sins, for failing to understand the secret meaning of the parable. This is all most clearly spelled out in the gospel of Mark.
The term “gnōsis” appears frequently in the knew testament. Also, the term “pleroma”, which is Greek for “fullness” appears in the New Testament. The Pleroma is a Gnostic belief, as well.
Another hallmark of Gnosticism is the hatred of the physical world. Indeed, the physical world was created by the demiurge, or Satan, in the Christian version of Gnosticism. Thus, Jesus calls Satan “the god of this world” which is perfectly in line with Gnostic belief. Hatred of “the flesh” and “carnal wisdom” is more Gnosticism. “The natural man” is railed against: only the spiritual man can discern spiritual things.
Whereas in Greco-Roman paganism, the flesh profited much, such that the Gymnasia had as much to do with athletics as with the perfection of the mind—which is why secondary schools in Germany are called “Gymnasia” even unto our own day, in Christianity, the Flesh profited little. During the Christian era, the Olympic Games stopped. It was only in the 1800s, when Christianity began to lose ground to secular modernity that the Olympic Games were brought back.
And so, a contempt for physical beauty and physical perfection is the perfect element to spawn such a movement as fat acceptance. Christians are always on the lookout for lower and lower forms of lepers to uplift. Hence, all this talk about “marginalised communities” as if their marginalisation somehow conferred value upon them. Ayn Rand said that need is not a virtue; need is not valuable. In our day, she might have said that marginalisation isn’t valuable. It is only the Christian axiology that makes need or marginalisation valuable. And, of course, I am not a Randian libertarian. Rand, as a stopped clock, is sometimes right. I think that sentient beings should be treated ethically. Indeed, I concur with César that we ought to eliminate, as far as is possible, unnecessary suffering. As someone who has skimmed through Benatar, then if someone is brought to this hell-planet, against his will, then he/she/it ought to be treated ethically, and not tormented with unnecessary horrendous suffering. However, my instinct is towards pagan eudaimonia, or “well mindedness” or, as modern psychologists might put it: “positive mental states”.
I speak of myself. Whilst a traditionalist Catholic, I let myself go, physically, as my profile picture demonstrates. However, that profile pic is about 2 or 3 years old, if not more so, and I have actually lost a considerable amount of weight since then. I am still overweight, but perhaps not obese, any more. My BMI is now, probably, on the cusp or boundary between my being obese and overweight, however, more than ten years ago, when I was still a traditionalist Catholic, I was well well within the obese threshold. Partly, it didn’t matter. I was soon to enjoy the traditionalist Catholic version of the rapture: the “3 days of darkness” and the “tribulation” predicted by Fatima and La Sallette. When one deconverts, his scale of values shifts dramatically. One removes one’s eye from a mythical post-mortem eternity, and the here and now then becomes all important.
However, what I mean most to talk about in this email is that there are a quarter of a billion Nigerians in this world? Thanks, Christians!
This is what happens when you believe that Africans have infinite dignity. This is what happens when every featherless biped is imago Dei, made in the image and likeness of God. As César points out: were it not for Christianity, blacks would probably be extinct by now, as predicted by Darwin. Instead of this, we have a quarter of a billion of them in a single African country! As I said before: the human virus is now consuming more than what the planet can sustain. Calling humans infinitely valuable, as Frankenpope did, is like saying that locusts or mosquitoes are infinitely valuable. Locusts, like humanity, are a consumptive plague too, aren’t they? And of course the go-to sight for all things overpopulation related—and Christianity’s extreme culpability in this regard—is church and state dot org dot uk.
Imagine James and the Giant Peach (written by the Nordic atheist antisemite, Roald Dahl). For a time, they had to eat parts of the peach to survive. Now, let us suppose that this peach was a magically self-healing peach. And now let us imagine that James and his crew began to eat more of the peach, per day, than what the peach could self-restore unto itself. This is where we are today. Humanity is a consumptive plague that is destroying the planet—and itself, ironically enough, into the bargain—and Christianity blinds us to this reality. It is spiritual toxoplasmosis. It causes us to worship what is destroying us.
And for those who say that “oh well that isn’t real Christianity”. You seem to forget that Archbishop Lefebvre was the papal delegate for all of French-speaking Africa. The overpopulation crisis in Africa is partly the fault of a man largely credited with founding traditionalist Catholicism. Bob Pope and Frankenpope are not saying anything new when they call the human plague “infinitely valuable”, not just as regards the mass of humanity in total, but each specimen is, in particular, “infinitely valuable” according to Dignitas Infinita.
Most of our social problems are caused by the fallout of Christianity. As I said before: “woke” is the residue that remains once the supernaturalism of Christianity evaporates. Revilo P. Oliver called woke “the Marxian Reformation”. (although the term “woke” did not exist in his day, he was describing precisely what the term “woke” encaptures).
Editor’s note: Those American racialists who feel uncomfortable tipping their hats to the ideas of an English translation of Eduardo Velasco’s essay on Judea vs. Rome, the “masthead” of The West’s Darkest Hour, because the author is a Spaniard, should at least read a book on the same subject but written by an American of pure Nordid blood.
Below, selected quotes from the third chapter of Adam Green’s 2026 book The Jesus Deception: A Mystical Midrashic Myth (bold type and underlined words in the original Kindle edition):
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Christianity arose within a volatile and deeply divided Second Temple Jewish society. Apocalyptic expectations, political oppression, and theological creativity created fertile ground for reinterpretations of prophecy and scripture. What emerged was a new religion, based not on historical events, but on a mythologized spiritual triumph…
…crushed by defeat after defeat and staring down the colossal war machine of Rome, would recognize that the dream of a conquering messiah was no longer a realistic hope but a near impossibility. As Dr. Richard Carrier in The Historicity of Jesus explains,
The traditional messianic hope (of a conclusive military victory over all of Israel’s neighbors) was a doomed hope, and that would have been obvious to at least some Jews.
Out of this despair grew a new vision: a messiah who would be spiritually victorious over Satan and the Gentiles.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood… but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. – Ephesians 6:12
This messiah did not need to raise an army or rule from Jerusalem. His triumph took place in a heavenly celestial realm that could not be disproven or verified…
The framework for a Messiah who conquers not with armies or weapons, but with words and teachings, was already present in the Jewish scriptures. A likely source of inspiration for the Christian reimagining of the Messiah as one who “rule the nations with word of his mouth” occurs in the pre-Christian Greek Text, Psalms of Solomon:
Behold, O Lord, and raise up for them their king, the son of David, at the time which you chose, O God, to rule over Israel your servant. And gird him with strength, to shatter unrighteous rulers, and to purge Jerusalem from nations that trample her down to destruction. To drive out sinners from the inheritance in wisdom and righteousness, to rule over the nations with the word of his mouth… He will be pure from sin, in order to rule a great people, to rebuke rulers, and to break sinners by the strength of his word. He will not rely on horse, rider, or bow, and he will not multiply for himself gold and silver for war, nor will he collect hopes for battle in a multitude of people. – Psalms of Solomon 17:23-25, 32-33
Dr. Carrier summarizes,
Though the Psalms describe this messiah in the manner of a military conqueror (e.g. 17.21- 26), it is still somewhat circumspect, saying ‘he shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth’ (17.24, 17.35-36) and that he will use no weapons or armies (17.33)… like all Jews, proto-Christians would have been searching this scripture (and others) for secret messages about the messiah… It’s certainly not improbable to see in the Psalms of Solomon a prediction of a metaphorically victorious messiah, who uses no armies or weapons but conquers solely through the power of his words (in other words, his teachings)…
Text like these provided the perfect template for inventing a messiah who triumphed not by armies and swords, but by words, scripture, and theology. Rome destroyed Jerusalem with earthly weapons, but Jerusalem was victorious with a spiritual weapon [Editor’s Note: This is the essence of Eduardo Velasco’s essay].
Pacifism as Strategy, Survival of Fittest
Christianity’s nonviolence was not merely a moral principle. It was a calculated strategy for survival. Jewish militant groups like the Zealots and Sicarii provoked Roman wrath and were inevitably crushed by its military dominance. A messianic movement that presented a conquering king would have posed an obvious threat and been destroyed without hesitation. But a peaceful, pacifist, hidden messiah who reigned in visions and revelations and triumphed in the heavens rather than on the battlefield would fly under the radar of Roman authorities.
As Richard Carrier observes, this strategic pacifism gave the movement a survival advantage over more militant sects:
By avoiding mass territorial action (and focusing instead on spiritual combat), they avoided armed conflict and thus survived, by gaining more converts over a wider area than were lost to sporadic persecutions. This may have been a lesson learned from observing the fate of other movements. But natural selection alone would determine it: agitative cults would be wiped out, leaving more pacifist cults to dominate the market… A non-existent messiah (whose lordship and victory were known only spiritually and thus never a worldly militaristic threat) would thus have an enormous competitive advantage at these earliest stages.
Messianic movements that provoked Rome were crushed while Christianity adapted and spread. It offered a savior who could not be killed and a kingdom not of this world. Unlike the rebels who took up arms, this movement promoted obedience and submission and appeared harmless. Its scriptures command, “Submit yourselves to the emperor,” “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,” and instruct believers to be compliant, obedient “slaves.” Over time, this approach led to a far more enduring conquest transforming the spiritual and ideological foundations of the empire itself. It was not through violence or rebellion, but through a religious warfare strategy, that the Jesus movement sought to overcome Rome. Jesus effectively Judaized the minds of Rome implanting the God of Israel and His messiah within the Empire.
Pagan Rome once conquered Judea, its emperors defiling Jewish temples with their idols. Yet in time the tables turned: the pagan temples were eventually emptied of their gods and rededicated to the messiah of Judah. The empire that had enslaved the Jews became an unwitting vessel propagating Jewish theology, its heart and soul penetrated by the very faith it once sought to suppress.
While some Jews expected the messiah to crush Rome through military force and acts of divine judgment, what ultimately succeeded was something far different, a theological creation that spiritually conquered the empire. Rome eventually bowed in reverence to the God of Israel, accomplishing the prophetic vision. The pen turned out to be mightier than the sword.
genes?
Regarding the recent discussion with a commenter who claimed that psychiatry has a genetic basis for its claims, I would suggest listening to the audio recordings of Benjamin reading passages from genuinely scientific books, like the one pictured on the left (here).
If you want to listen to Jay Joseph directly, click here (it’s an audio interview that can be heard on YouTube).
