A commenter just told me:
Hi Cesar, you had written before, “Something that bothers me about my blogging career is that the more philosophically mature I get, the fewer visits I receive.” As Donald Hoffman argues in The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes, humans are evolved to maximize their reproductive chances, which has little to do with the pursuit of truth; indeed, focusing on truth as an end goal lowers these chances.
What the vast majority of people care about is increasing their relative social status so they make more money, are better liked in their communities, and have greater reproductive odds. And as Thomas Ligotti concludes in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, “If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else”…
Just my two cents.
If you want to live and reproduce, you’d better believe the myths of your time (the king is not naked). Woe betide you if you point out that the king is naked (only children like the one in the story, drunks and madmen tell the truth).
Nevertheless, we cannot compare a healthy age, with healthy myths—let’s say Greco-Roman before they interbred—with Christendom. One reflects a healthy archetype and the other an incredibly malignant one. There is nothing wrong with believing in the gods of Olympus or their Germanic equivalent, the gods of Valhalla, if those archetypes are attuned to the eternal truths for the Aryan peoples (cf. the early chapters of Savitri’s book). On the other hand, failing to repudiate a New Testament written by Jews for Gentile consumption is infinitely perverse.
What you say is true but only because whites today are fucking degenerate shits who only deserve Kalki to come and exterminate them. (You should read Savitri’s book, linked in ‘Our Books’, to understand this point.)
As for me being left alone preaching in the wilderness, that’s also true. But have you reflected about these words I recently wrote about Wagner and Nietzsche?
If there is one thing that emerges from all these biographies that I have read and conscientiously weighed up, it is the revelation that Christianity condemned Nietzsche, to use the poet-philosopher’s words, to a seventh solitude: absolute solitude that over the years annihilated him psychologically. That’s the tremendous asymmetry I was talking about, compared to the much famed and incredibly beloved Wagner by Europeans in general and Germans in particular…
One German gets all the glory and the other is condemned to the extent that nobody wants to listen to him, to the point of losing his mind. And it all has to do, of course, with the fact that the Aryans were Christians in the 19th century. And even in the 21st century the racial right loves those who echo Wagner’s anti-Semitism, but those who also blame Christianity are ignored.
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Hi Cesar, you wrote “If you want to live and reproduce, you’d better believe the myths of your time (the king is not naked).” Yes, this is true. The other story I really like in this vein is the “point deer, make horse” story. In this Chinese story, Zhao Gao, in an attempt to control the Qin government, devised a loyalty test for court officials using a deer and horse:
An apt analogy for modern living, no?
Regarding the pagan myths vs the Christian myths, it has to be said that Christianity won out for a reason — namely, it contained certain memetic improvements that allowed it to outcompete paganism. These memetic improvements include (1) the concept of Heaven and Hell, with an all-seeing spying God that constantly watched and judged your every action, which was a huge incentive for believers to behave in certain ways, versus paganism where everyone ended up in Hades so it wasn’t a motivator for action; (2) centralized power via regional bishops (Julian the Apostate planned to centralize Hellenism to compete via the creation of provincial High Priests, but was likely murdered by a Christian soldier before he could); (3) the focus on charity, which made the religion popular (Julian also tried to institute more widespread pagan religious charity, showing he understood the appeal); (4) the focus on spiritual equality, so a slave could be spiritually equal to or greater than the Roman emperor so long as he believed in Jesus! This was like catnip for the slaves, poor, and women who had no or very little status in Roman society.
Indeed, history is one of ever-increasing centralization and ever-decreasing privacy and individual autonomy, which sucks, and which imo adds to the argument about the Demiurge controlling material reality.
Nope! You must read not only Savitri but the histories of the white race written by Pierce and Kemp. In short, without miscegenation, there would have been no Christianity. A pure Sparta or Republican Rome untainted by foreign blood wouldn’t have been conquered by Judeo-Christians. The Romans were conquered because they had already committed the sin against the Holy Spirit (interbreeding with mudbloods). The Peloponnesian and Punic wars weakened the Greco-Roman world to the point of sinning. But Hitler’s central idea, and I agree with him, is that without miscegenation there is no corruption of the spirit (Christianity, etc.).
The problem with white nationalists is that they are ignorant about the history of their race. Are you a white nationalist?
Caesar,
Most white americans are so oblivious to history beyond the yankee state that they are amused when they find buildings in Europe older than uncle Sam, seriously.
But I noticed this is getting worst for younger generations. All they know about culture is anime, video games and nigger music.
You are right by saying we need Kalki to punish their degeneracy.
Christianity won the same way a tick can kill you if you tolerate it long enough to give you lyme disease.
The kind of fight that judeo christians have been doing since thousands of years is by preying on pagan’s tolerance and convincing them that lyme disease is good for them.
The transvaluation of values will come as a realization that a dam parasite shouldn’t be worshiped but smashed right away before it can kill you.
The search for the “truth” is largely an audacious Christian chimaera. Humans cannot know the mystery of why they are there (only how). But a healthy culture based on sound blood will reflect certain truths, both in reason and in beauty. (All people feel it, even though their methods of fighting perversion differ, from the incels of the West to the Iranian morality police, now armed with cameras.)
Kalki is but a physical principle denoting the extent to which reality can be distorted – until it breaks.
The genius of Christianity was not necessarily in “memetic improvements”, it was in conquering Rome, the highest peak of Aryan civilisation (until 1933 CE). In military history terms, it’s akin to expecting the Germans to reverse their fortunes after Kursk (not to say there weren’t counter-offensives such as the Vikings or the Ardennes).
“What the vast majority of people care about is increasing their relative social status so they make more money, are better liked in their communities, and have greater reproductive odds.”
This is mostly true for american yankee culture and wherever it has spread through English media. Some call them automatons. They are already dead inside their minds and are kind of more like talking vegetables. Are they really worth anything?
But if you go to an European country, in the country or suburbs areas, you can still find genuine men and women who just want to live their lives in peace.
You may be able to find some of those who have migrated to America recently, but the rotten yankee culture quickly destroys their souls and turns them into more automatons.
On Thomas Ligotti, he is considered by some to be the successor to H.P. Lovecraft, but I disagree. Lovecraft was a staunch racist, criticizing miscigenation in his fiction as a conspiratorial force of world-ending madness. Ligotti, OTOH, wrote the short-story “The Small People” in which he criticizes racism as delusional paranoia. You can listen to the audiobook on YT.
On being awake and alone.
I wished Happy Easter to a white nationalist friend this weekend. Then I told him he needs to stop trying to view Xtianity as a source of “psychological equilibrium” and “spiritual stability” for the common man, and just renounce the whole thing like poison. “Think about burning churches, not redecorating them”, I said.
The tirade of admonishment that came after! These WN guys just can’t let go; the mental gymnastics, the double-think, it’s mind boggling: apparently I’m a closet bolshevik with deep insecurities of my masculinity. He later apologized for expressing himself rudely (LOL).
This type of knee-jerk reaction is akin to how one WN commenter, after reading C.T. criticize white nationalism, told him “you probably like to watch your wife get fucked by niggers”.
Men like us need to devise our own mental tricks to not go nuts like Nietzsche. We carry the Sacred Fire, and we must be very careful who we show it to. In dissident circles this is called “hiding your power level”.