In the comments section, the day before yesterday I complained that visitors don’t understand the value of studying the issue of child abuse and psychohistory, which studies its psychological consequences. I want to clarify the point.
Twenty years ago, in the Spanish newspaper El País, Alice Miller wrote something that made my mind fly to my mother’s behaviour (my translation): ‘Where does this repressed rage come from, this need to torment, humiliate, mock and mistreat defenceless human beings (prisoners and children alike)?’ Then Miller answers her question, it comes from poisonous pedagogy: ‘Children and adolescents can be beaten, humiliated and sometimes subjected to the clearest sadism without any legal consequences. Such treatment is tantamount to real torture. But it is not called that’.
Now grown up, this once-beaten girl, who buried her rage for years, begins to take it out on her children, repeating the cycle.
The confessions of Tyrone Patten-Walsh (Joseph Walsh was the name he used on this site), now serving a seven-year sentence for thoughtcrime in the UK, are paradigmatic in showing why we should know Miller’s work as well as psychohistory.
In a comment on The Unz Review that Walsh later deleted, because he posted it before his sentencing earlier this year and was still hoping to be declared non-guilty, he confessed:
I’ve already suffered immensely since I was 17 when I was incarcerated in a mental institute for ‘mental illness’. I’m used to suffering and I don’t expect mercy from life. Life shows little to no mercy to certain people. Consequently I have become merciless. In fact I’ve come to love the suffering and evil of this planet. As long as humans are suffering, justice is being done, that’s what I say. From my teenage years I’ve been obsessed with Satan, Hitler, Charles Manson, Evil, crime, serial killers, etc.
Walsh’s guilt-by-association looks more like a Hollywood Hitler than the historical Hitler! Remember that in my critical article ‘On commenters of The West’s Darkest Hour’ another Englishman was also a fan of Charles Manson. German National Socialists of the previous century wouldn’t even understand how some Anglo-Saxon racialists could be fans of Masson, Satanism or, openly, Evil as Walsh confesses. He adds:
If I go to prison I imagine I should feel right at home. It’s part of being a revolutionary, an outlaw. When I was younger the British state termed my thoughts and words ‘insane’, now my words and thoughts are ‘illegal’ haha. I’ve been termed bipolar, schizoaffective, autistic, Asperger, a terrorist, far right etc. by the usual psychological ‘experts’. I’m sure you can imagine my life’s story Dr Morgan. It’s the same story lived by thousands of other ‘dangerous males’ all across the West.
Yes: Walsh was a martyred teenager by the System. But he didn’t know how to process his abysmal pain. Although when I met him in London he said things that I thought were the most lucid I have ever heard about Aryan ethnosuicide, he followed a very different path from mine (I too had been martyred by my parents). Walsh’s comment to his pal Robert Morgan ends with these words:
I’ll finish with an amusing anecdote. Ten years ago Carolyn Yeager interviewed Tom Metzger and Metzger was talking about the Jews’ collective will to power. Carolyn asked Metzger “Where’s our will to power?” and Metzger paused for a split second then said “They’re all in prison”. Yeager was appalled by Terrible Tommy’s statement and said “Oh, come on”. I wouldn’t have expected her to understand but Metzger certainly did, lol. Thanks for your words of support anyway.
I would put it differently.
When Hitler was triumphing in Europe Carl Jung said that there were two collective unconsciouses: the Jewish collective unconscious and the Aryan collective unconscious. Unfortunately, the Aryan is prey to the former.
For those who are prey to the Judeo-Christian collective unconscious, the interview with Tom Holland that I embedded yesterday is a splendid opportunity to understand what’s going on in our little heads. Such an insight is opposite to Hollywood Nazis admiring Masson, Satan or idealising prison. Today’s prisons are hellish compared to Hitler’s incarceration after the Putsch, as we saw recently in that passage from Brendan Simms’ biography. The Landsberg prison was a five-star hotel compared to the prison Walsh and his friend Chris Gibbons, whom I also met, are now suffering.
Incidentally, recently the Greek man who told me he was going to commit suicide, also mentioned in ‘On commenters of The West’s Darkest Hour’, sent me an email confessing that he hadn’t done it! I suggested that he write his most painful memoirs, as I did in my autobiographical books, in pursuit of the only therapy that saved me. I don’t know if he will follow my advice but another commenter on this site, also committed like Walsh to a mental hospital for a while, has begun to write his memoirs.
More on how the most abusive parents undermine the mental health of the child can be found in my book Day of Wrath, the PDF of which is linked in the featured post.
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I’ve just been told by the court probation officer that there’s a chance I’ll not go to prison, and instead be treated as a mental health risk case in the community, with a three year treatment order (replacing my current two-year court order) to engage with monthly injected medication, or face a fine. He mused over an injection that lasted for six months, but I told him it wasn’t on the market. The atmosphere very much today in British justice is that they’re in thrall to psychiatry.
He said “I’m not an expert”, making me groan internally as I realised he thought they were, another ignorant true believer (with thoughts of Joseph, Miller, Ross, and Valenstein again entering my head, aghast at the gross systemic power of it all). It’s been exactly the same with my lawyers. “We think you did what you did because, obviously, you weren’t taking your medication” – what did I do exactly? It’s a victimless crime, and my dissemination is no different to that of Wikipedia, Amazon, or Waterstones. I hate it when they say “your” medication, as if it were something I was obliged by life itself to acquiesce to, something useful, and of my own choice.
He mentioned in passing “I see you have a history of experiencing child abuse, from the words in the doctor’s report” to which I said, tears coming to my eyes a few seconds later and my lip trembling “oh, I just stated that verbatim, I didn’t go into any detail” to which he replied what, sadly, exhaustingly, tragically, they all reply, that most hateful phrase, which always drowns my hope and any sense of justice: “oh, no, no, it’s ok, don’t worry, you don’t need to discuss that, I don’t want you dragging up old memories and upsetting yourself”.
Don’t they realise I want to be able to cry about it, want to be able to talk about it, at length and in detail? This ‘it’ is ever with me, and it’s not as if I don’t know it all anyway, there would no personal shocks. I needed validation, off him, and off anyone I’ve ever got as far (and it has never been allowed to be any further) discussing the matter with. I knew he was, with office training politeness, trying to be polite/kind, weighted towards reserved politeness more than care, but all he was doing then actively, was telling me to repress myself, and then telling me it was ok.
These are the sort who would never read my newest book (when it is finished), or, upon glancing through it, suggest (as one psychiatric nurse literally did to me once when I raised the matter) “so what?”. Literally, all that pain encapsulated, “so what?”. I also dislike it when they refer to “the events” and “what happened to you” as if they were aware more than the basest superficiality, as, in truth, they have no clue what tortures I went through (as neither do any of my living friends).
Thank you for your recent posts. I wish more could discuss these topics. My legal case feels like a pseudo-symmetrical compliment to Walsh’s case. We have something superficially in common, but mentally, I feel quite the opposite. I am glad I have never been drawn to legitimate expressions of sadism, serial murder and darkness. Perhaps enough meekness survived from my pious Catholic childhood to render that off limits to me, even as today I repudiate all Judeo-Christian deceit and destructiveness. It’s a shame I never got to write to him. I sense I might have caught him ‘too late’ though had I done so. I can’t really think of anyone else in the NS sphere (bar yourself of course) who has my kind of life story, and yet also an interest in child abuse research and trauma and psychohistory, who is not bought over or bought out by fallacious genetics muck and lucrative literary theorizing imbalances. I’m not saying they aren’t there, but I do not know of them.
PS. I wasn’t sure how to interpret the commenter who said all faith is weakness. I agree with him, but my vitalist panentheism comes more from awe at what I do see than a suspension of disbelief at what I do not. We really must move the framework of what is godly away from the knee-jerk mental blocks of what we are accustomed to utilize in our paradigm of revealed religions. I see the trees as I walk through them, and feel them, and am in awe of life itself (as in life processes, systems, and mechanism), in the sense of Thomas Nagel, or Philip Goff, Wilson, Skrbina, or Skolimowski, experiencing in both sensation and perception an empirical teleological cosmo-deism, all infused with purpose and potential. Growth, and more beautiful form. Beauty is the truth of godliness. Rather than Charles Manson, my idols would be artists, and naturalists, perhaps Ernst Haeckel or Ludwig Klages. That said, I’ve always liked Kurt Eggers.