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“A child’s suffering surpasses the imagination of any adult.”

—Alice Miller (1923-2010)

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Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society Betrayal of the Child (NY: Meridian, 1986), page 169.

I think that’s true, yes. Given that imagination can (usually) be expanded, with decisive open-mindedness, I think it’s also a wilful ignorance on their parts – back to M. Scott Peck’s secular ‘Evil’ definition.

In my own life, especially as a teen, my Dad didn’t want to listen to me on the severe external abuse (let alone his own, or the iatrogenic ‘treatment’ of the psychiatrists and therapists – the whole damn industry!) because it would open up too many problems for him and Mum… ‘Why did they not behave differently? Why could they not protect me? Why did they make it worse? Why had they, in the eyes of a discerning public/superego failed as parents?’ etc., and so they remained blind, him especially (but her for much of this time on and off until the final two weeks of her life, and even then that’s debateable how much she’d really clicked over it all). It maintains the veneer of a functioning family, albeit with an ‘invalid’ son. That benevolent social mask well-to-do middle class families would rather die than discard. That decency.

I think if a weeping child gets to the point of consciously attempting to bite their right arm off piecemeal, right down to the bone (I know, it sounds funny – cartoonish – if you read it superficially) you can probably assume by inference that they’re in psychological pain, and then wonder what led them to that disastrous set of decisions, what horrible situation not of their doing, what extended conditioning. Or, with a sigh, so one would hope… but no! Hardly ever. The outside world, in all its vast, grim inanity, knows better. There’s more to my life than autophagia itself, it’s just another self-harm method after all, among many attempted. Though graphic, that’s not the point I wanted people to focus on in my book, hoping they’d be more mature.

I don’t hold out a huge amount of hope for most people on this issue [parental child abuse]. There’s certainly no point putting it to most f**king racialists – that’s been empirically tested, I would think.

As I said before, and say again, repeating myself on the matter – as it hasn’t sunk in – which race are they fighting for, and striving to protect? Surely not their own. I know of cases worse than my own, and they certainly wouldn’t have been regarded with anything but total contempt by the ridiculous dissident right/white nationalist ‘community’. At least it’s useful for my own logged research, in reminding me that, for all their empty platitudes and knee-jerk campaign slogans, no, they certainly don’t care about their children, or white children in general. What future do they actually want, if not for them? I ask myself sometimes in my own brief thoughts (they’re not soliloquies), does a race like this really deserve to exist? It is certainly ‘like this’.

Hence that extensive necessary ‘trimming’ I suppose, until they are, eventually, justified in taking up space and oxygen, and of no further harm to themselves. It’s better than submission, and clinging to the false comfort of unobtainable anti-natalism. I remain some form of ‘white supremacist’ on an idealistic basis, but it’s not often that I even remember why.

This is my thinking as an adult ‘survivor’ (barely). I couldn’t, I don’t think, put into words now how I felt as a child.

“Psychogenic emergency” (cf. my trilogy) cannot be explained by reason. You’re either overman or you’re not. Those in the middle of the river could, in theory, finish crossing. But they prefer to remain petrified at the sight of Medusa.

As I said in a post I recently linked about living under the giant sequoias, there are hardly any people on this side of the Rubicon. The big question is: will more like us cross during the convergence of catastrophes that is coming?

Today, seeing and reposting several pro-Nazi tweets on X, gave me some hope…

Thank you for reminding me of your X account. That did give me hope. I usually only scan British alternative media resources, just to vaguely keep in touch with current times and events (and think I’m going to try and stop doing that soon, as I figure it’s toxic for my health – all they do is promote the newspapers’ negativity in showing us more doom and gloom, and our aggressors doing horrible, familiar things – rather than boost us racially to anything more than a quaint, provincial degree, as if they had no ambition beyond the confines of the orthodox; certainly no planetary ambitions, or anything of Adolf Hitler’s bright world).

I was enjoying the footage of Scandinavia in the short film clip, hoping silently the entire time, slightly on edge, that it wouldn’t be spliced at the end with any footage at all of inherently grotesque non-whites in their modern depravity, and very relieved indeed that it retained Beauty throughout.

I couldn’t get the post that said ‘they are afraid of this one [abstract?] symbol more than any other’ to load, but assume he is referring to the Swastika. if so, I’d agree with than pronouncement – hence why I was so annoyed that on a piece of art I commissioned from someone – and paid a great deal for for what it was – they insisted on changing that beautiful sign to a garish grey Black Sun (as appropriated by the alt-right at one point), a valuable symbol also in its original context, but very much not as immediate to me in historical resonance.

I think my favourite recent clip (which I had actually viewed before in delight a few weeks back) was the happy Aryan children on the swing. I’m glad people share wholesome things there.

Yes, I certainly won’t be viewing anything more of the palpably defeatist British Nationalist Telegram content from now on. I do not really need ‘news’ of any sort; one has a front door to walk through, after all.

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