In honour

of The Turner Diaries, 1

Since yesterday I mentioned the film released last year that refers to this novel several times, I would like to pay tribute not to Hollywood’s malicious propaganda, but to the insight into Aryan degeneration that William Pierce detected when he wrote it (basically the message of this site, The West’s Darkest Hour).

I discovered the novel in late 2009 or early 2010 when I listened to the audiobook of The Turner Diaries narrated by Pierce himself. Later, I listened to the audiobook again while reading a print version of the novel that I downloaded from the internet in March 2011 and printed out for one of my ring binders.

In 2014, the month after meeting Joseph Walsh and Chris Gibbons in London (both imprisoned in the UK this year for what they said on Gibbons’ podcast), I finally received The Turner Diaries in paperback. But I didn’t know that the copy I had ordered with the money I had left over from my trip to the UK would come with a disclaimer from publisher Lyle Stuart. I was so angry that I tore out Stuart’s pages and, with the very little money I had left from my trip, I had it bound by a traditional bookbinder who delivered the bound copy to me on 5 September 2014.

I’ll start a new series by quoting what I highlighted eleven years ago in the bound copy shown in the image below. Keep in mind that what I emphasised with an orange highlighter in that copy reflects my thoughts on the third reading of the novel (well, the first time I only heard it in Pierce’s voice). As I said, I am struck by how the critique of white nationalism that I have been making on this site for years is virtually identical to what we read in these orange passages written by Pierce in the 1970s. To my knowledge, he never called himself a “white nationalist”. Neither did Lincoln Rockwell. Nor Revilo Oliver.

Under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald, Pierce wrote:

 

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We had badly underestimated the degree to which materialism had corrupted our fellow citizens, as well as the extent to which their feelings could be manipulated by the mass media.

As long as the government is able to keep the economy somehow gasping and wheezing along, the people can be conditioned to accept any outrage. Despite the continuing inflation and the gradually declining standard of living, most Americans are still able to keep their bellies full today, and we must simply face the fact that that’s the only thing which counts with most of them…

The purpose was not only to attract new members with a militant disposition, but at the same time to purge the Organization [“The Order”—Ed.] of the fainthearts and hobbyists—the “talkers”… [page 6]

So I, and I know this also applies to George and Katherine and Henry, threw myself without reservation into work for the Organization and made only plans for the future of the Organization. My private life had ceased to matter. [page 7]

Slavery is the just and proper state for a people who have grown as soft, self-indulgent, careless, credulous, and befuddled as we have… Indeed, we are already slaves…

These spiritual chains are a truer mark of slavery than the iron chains which are yet to come. Why didn’t we rebel 35 years ago, when they took our schools away from us and began converting them into racially mixed jungles? Why didn’t we throw them all out of the country 50 years ago, instead of letting them use us as cannon fodder in their war to subjugate Europe? More to the point, why didn’t we rise up three years ago, when they started taking our guns away? Why didn’t we rise up in righteous fury and drag these arrogant aliens into the streets and cut their throats then? Why didn’t we roast them over bonfires at every street-corner in America? Why didn’t we make a final end to this obnoxious and eternally pushy clan, this pestilence from the sewers of the East, instead of meekly allowing ourselves to be disarmed?

The answer is easy. We would have rebelled if all that has been imposed on us in the last 50 years had been attempted at once. But because the chains that bind us were forged imperceptibly, link by link, we submitted. The adding of any single, new link to the chain was never enough for us to make a big fuss about. It always seemed easier—and safer—to go along. And the further we went, the easier it was to go just one step further. One thing the historians will have to decide—if any men of our race survive to write a history of this era—is the relative importance of deliberation and inadvertence in converting us from a society of free men to a herd of human cattle.

That is, can we justly blame what has happened to us entirely on deliberate subversion, carried out through the insidious propaganda of the controlled mass media, the schools, the churches, and the government? Or must we place a large share of the blame on inadvertent decadence—on the spiritually debilitating life style into which the Western people have allowed themselves to slip in the twentieth century?

Probably the two things are intertwined, and it will be difficult to blame either cause separately. Brainwashing has made decadence more acceptable to us, and decadence has made us less resistant to brainwashing. In any event, we are too close to the trees now to see the outline of the forest very clearly. [pages 33-34]