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Miscegenation

Mexico

refutes the WN and NS paradigm

Following up on what I said last Saturday, I would like to show how we differ not only from American white nationalism but also from German National Socialism.

We believe that Christianity is the primary cause of the Aryan decline, not a secondary cause as seems to emerge from Hitler’s conversations with close friends, or from Himmler’s lectures to the SS. Both knew that Christianity was quite a problem, but not the problem to be solved (that’s why they focused on Jewry).

There are no longer any German National Socialists who can speak publicly, due to the draconian laws of Germany and Austria. But in previous years, I posed a question to American white nationalists, who have their First Amendment rights, which they never answered: If Jewry is the primary cause of white decline, why did the Spanish ruin their DNA by marrying Amerind women when the anti-Semitic Inquisition reigned in New Spain (what we now call Mexico)?

I think they didn’t respond because they don’t have a coherent answer to my argument: that New Spain’s Catholicism—not the Jews who had no real power in New Spain—was the obvious cause of mestizaje (racial mixing).

Juan Miguel Zunzunegui, who was born in the same city as me, is a Mexican writer and lecturer known for his Hispanist approach to Mexican history. Throughout his career, he has published several literary works and historical essays in which he attempts to debunk the Black Legend that has been used against Spain.

Zunzunegui recently published a book about Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of the Aztec Empire, whom he admires. I would like to use this short video in Spanish from YouTube to illustrate my point. The translation and transcription of the audio to text are mine. Zunzunegui said:

It’s quite nice when Cortés advances and signs pacts—for example, in the area that is now the state of Tabasco, where he meets the woman we now call Malinche, “Doña Marina”—Cortés is given twenty women, and they are not spoils of war.

That’s very important to clarify. From then on, it’s always the same: “We give you these women so that you may have children with them and we may be brothers” [i.e., Amerinds and Spaniards—Ed.]. What does Cortés do? He baptises them, gives them Spanish names, and marries them off to his men! And they have children with them. Where is the conquest there? Or at least it’s a different kind of conquest, right?

And when he allies himself with the Tlaxcallans—Spain’s great alliance in America—it’s the same thing, right?: “Take the daughters of the nobles so that you may have children with them and we may be brothers.” And that goes hand in hand with one of the last wishes expressed by Queen Isabella I of Castile shortly before her death in 1503: “Let Spaniards marry Indian women! Let Spanish women marry Indian men, and let us be one people!”

When you marry someone from another people and have a mestizo child, there are no longer two peoples. When Cortés and Doña Marina had their first mestizo child—note: Martín Cortés Malintzin had a Nahuatl surname—like Pedro de Alvarado, who married María Luisa Xicoténcatl, their children would bear the name Xicoténcatl. So, of course, Pedro de Alvarado’s son, one of the most savage men who came with Cortés, was married to the woman who would be called María Luisa Xicoténcatl, the daughter of the Tlaxcallan lord.

Look, the Tlaxcallans weren’t just conquered, they were also conquerors: they also took Tenochtitlan, and together they had a son. What was that son? Was he conquered or a conqueror? That’s irrelevant now. Those concepts dissolved as soon as we had children. Well, Hernán Cortés had a daughter with Moctezuma’s daughter, that is, Leonor Cortés y Moctezuma: Cortés’ daughter, granddaughter of Moctezuma. Was she conquered or a conqueror, considering that her descendants are grandees of Spain and live in Spain today?

What we have here is a migratory process, because, mind you: in three hundred years of Spanish rule in America, throughout all of America—well, all of Iberian America, from California to Patagonia; that is, from California to Argentina—, in three hundred years only 150,000 Spaniards arrived.

Unlike Jared Taylor, Zunzunegui knows nothing about the difference in IQ between the various races. But that’s not the point. What I want to get at is obvious: the cause of miscegenation throughout the part of the American continent conquered by Spaniards and Portuguese—the latter also had an Inquisition—wasn’t due to Jewish subversion but to Christian universalism.

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Axiology

Narcos

I read the below post here:

The NS Worldview rejects Christianity as racially universalist and fundamentally foreign to the Germanic way of life.

The Christian fundamental laws, which were forcibly imposed on the Germanic people, stand in stark contrast to the Nordic-Germanic worldview. The Church teaches the equality of all people. It also puts this into practice within its sphere of influence. Anyone can become a Christian, whether Aryan, Jew, or Black. Thus, a unified humanity was to be created by eliminating all racial differences between peoples.

The dogmas of the Catholic Church originated in the Orient. They were shaped under Byzantine influence. The Germanic way of life, which alone corresponded to the German national character, had to give way to an unnatural Christian dogma.

The dogma of the Catholic Church states that human life on earth is filled with sin. The better afterlife is supposed to redeem them from it. “Love your enemies,” “Thou shalt not kill” are fundamental tenets of this faith. Motherhood, for the Germanic woman the fulfillment of her existence, is sinful.

The unnatural seclusion in a monastery or convent is pleasing to God. With all these beliefs, Christianity was alien to the nature of the Nordic-Germanic people. Through the doctrine that all people are equal before God, the Church destroyed racial consciousness. The Jewish blood element penetrated and weakened the peoples.

Only Adolf Hitler’s various laws for the preservation of the purity of Germanic blood and the elimination of foreign races from the national community put a stop to this.

I’d like to change the subject slightly.

I don’t want to talk about all the torture in this Mexican prison related to the cartels. But I do want to mention that in one type of execution, the victims had their eyes and feet taped, were wrapped in plastic, and put alive into a freezer meant for livestock. After a couple of days, the Mexicans were frozen solid. They called a butcher and cut them into small squares, which were later fed to the pigs.

This was a common practice around 2011 or 2012, not too far from the US.

Incredibly, many of these felons who had belonged to cartels are already free because, regarding the sanctity of human life, Mexican criminal law follows Christian mandates (“Love your enemies,” “Thou shalt not kill”). There is no death penalty in Mexico (these freezing were apparently done under the orders of the cartel, not the Mexican state).

In an ethnostate the ethical way, according to our scale of values, would be to kill them all. There wouldn’t be any prisoners, not even those like the gigantic penitentiaries Bukele built in El Salvador. These kinds of criminals would simply be wiped out.

Considering that many cartel members are free (I’ve most likely run into them on the street) and wield enormous power in this country—veritable states within a state!—do you grasp our concept of transvaluation of all values? Human life has no value except the value our internal ethics assign to it.

Heil Himmler!

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Hate Kali Yuga

Zero

Lebenskraft ! (8)

Salzburg

 

On March 20th I posted the entry ‘Salzburg’ where I said that, due to the town without a white man where I temporarily live, The Sound of Music was a very therapeutic experience. My recent visit to the real Salzburg reversed my feelings in an unusual way. But let’s take it one step at a time…

When I got off the bus, the first thing I did was to photograph some of the buildings I had seen in the film, like the ones you can see in the opening title credits. It didn’t take me long to find out things about the city considered the most beautiful in Austria that I didn’t like.

Deo optimo maximo, abbreviated as DOM, is a Latin phrase that in the ancient world meant ‘for the greatest and best God’ in reference to Jupiter. When Constantine imposed Christianity as the official religion, the phrase took on the same meaning but to refer to the god of the Jews.

In this Salzburg building we can see, if we enlarge the photo, the DOM above the door but it no longer refers to the God of the Aryans, but to the god of the Jews that even many white nationalists still worship. That is the real Salzburg! In fact, there are still monasteries inhabited by monks, theological schools and churches, mostly Catholic in the city.

Mozart is celebrated everywhere here because he was born in Salzburg, but when I had a delicious Fruling Salad (it was asparagus season) at Koller & Koller on Waagplatz, degenerate music was playing inside the restaurant. In that square I photographed a fountain that appeared in a scene I love from The Sound of Music: when Maria, starring Julie Andrews, throws water on the horse after she is thrown out of the convent in song and with great spirit heads for her new home. I took a pic:

There are a couple of confessions in this entry that will surprise the reader. If we set aside the anti-Nazi propaganda of The Sound of Music, that film—which I saw on the big screen sixty years ago!—so beloved by Aryans after so many, many years, is worth more than Mozart’s legacy. Why?

Because, even if Hollywood’s intention was malicious (the anti-Nazi message), The Sound of Music represents, on film, what Maxfield Parrish’s images represent: an ode to the most beautiful specimens of the Aryan race, including children and other characters.

If what moves me to blog is precisely the most beautiful specimens of the race, it is not enough to see them in paintings: the seventh art is capable of portraying them live and in full colour. No wonder that, despite the West’s darkest hour, after six decades this film hasn’t died in the hearts of millions of whites who saw it as children. And it will not die as long as there are whites.

In a previous post I said that the beauty of the artistic buildings of a European city was only the frame, and that the frame is only worthwhile if it contains a good canvas. Well, if we watch this modern video about the locations of The Sound of Music we will discover that, without the beautiful actors, those places have lost their magic.

That is why I am obsessed with preserving the genotype / phenotype of the most beautiful Aryans, like the ones of Parrish or the film: something that is worth more than the music of Mozart or any other classical composer that can be sung by coloureds, as we saw with my bitter experience in Vienna.

The other confession I wanted to make is that this trip reconciled me with my native country and even with the indigenous people where, temporarily, I live. While it is true what Hitler said, that people like me are at a greater psychogenic distance from these Indians than they are from the animal, their presence doesn’t cause me the hatred that the sight of traitorous whites causes me. So if, less than two months ago, in my entry ‘Salzburg’ I tried to visually flee from the town where I write by watching The Sound of Music on my computer, now that I have actually visited the city things are reversed.

In my entry on Hallstatt I said that the world today is, for me, a nightmare. That nightmare means not only being in 21st century Salzburg, where I saw a black man with his baby’s pram, but in the other cities I visited: where it is obvious that the Aryan is committing suicide everywhere.

The Mexican Indians I see as I leave the gated community where I live may be primitive. They may be psychogenically closer to the animal than I am to them. But they aren’t evil people like the Aryans, who after the Second World War have allowed the archetype of the Jewish collective unconscious to take over their souls.

And it all ultimately has to do with the fact that the DOM no longer refers to Zeus / Jupiter, but to the god of the Jews. Is it finally clear why Kalki wants to nuke the cathedrals?

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Mexico City

Not

exactly Salzburg!

In the presentation of the book that I hold in my hand in my new room (on the wall we see some of Parrish’s paintings), María Teresa Franco, director of INBAL, informs us that since the times when it was an Aztec enclave ‘where the shoemakers, barnyard animal sellers, vegetable, plant and flower traders who came from Xochimilco prevailed’, the current Tepito neighbourhood in Mexico City is emblematic of the country. See some of the photographs that make up the book in this video.

Of course, the neochristian woman who wrote the prologue to the book praises what I consider nefarious. It was precisely the sight of such places in the heart of the capital that motivated me, since I was a child, to develop an exterminationist ideology.

Significantly, St Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of the Tepito neighbourhood: a saint whom, as an adolescent, I wanted to imitate (remember that I was raised in a fierce Catholicism). Who would have thought that, due to the abuse at home, I would transvalue my values from St Francis to Himmler…!

Not all the zones of the Mexican capital look like Tepito, which has such a bad reputation that people of my social class rarely dare to enter there. But I think it is impossible for an American racialist, whether Christian, or neochristian in the secular sense of accepting the Christian ethics of loving every wingless biped regardless of its appearance, to understand my exterminationism because he has not suffered such people over the decades. Asking Americans who advocate racism lite to revalue their values, to the point of loving Himmler and repudiating so-called Christian saints, is asking too much of them.

But the most paradoxical of all is that, as I said in my previous post, it is preferable to live in Mexico, or another third-world country, than in ethno-traitor Europe where the thoughtpolice literally breaks down doors, at night, to jail you if you say anything unkind about migrants. Those who know Spanish can watch, for example, this recent YouTube interview where Spain’s thoughtpolice dragged a blogger, who used to speak in a much softer tone than the hate-filled tone in which I speak, out of his home using SWAT forces.

Christian values ​​reign in the West and are implemented with the ferocity of a religious fanatic like the High Sparrow, and his Faith Militant, in Game of Thrones.

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Psychology

Arieti

Last month I was talking about some Mexican intellectuals, referring to white gentiles, whose ideology sometimes seems close to the American Woke. Now I would like to say something about another Mexican intellectual, a Jew, about whom I have already said something in The Occidental Observer.

These Mexican Gentiles, and the Mexican Jew, think much the same. That is why a National Socialist of our century must see the Christian problem (or neochristian in the case of these gentile intellectuals) and the Jewish problem as two sections of the same iceberg.

I must confess that in the 1990s, before my awakening, I was a fan of the magazine Vuelta, founded by Octavio Paz, whom I considered then as a kind of mentor. As Paz invited Krauze to direct Vuelta, when I was a normie I didn’t distinguish between Jew and Gentile, so I also became an admirer of Krauze. One of his books, published in 1992, Textos Heréticos, collects very lucid essays, critical of the Mexican leftists. (I now have that book in one of my countless boxes because next month I will be moving house.) Naturally, after discovering the white nationalist intellectuals, and later Savitri Devi, my distancing from both the neochristian Paz and Krauze was total.

However, I recently saw Krauze retweet a couple of silly things about Zelensky (here and here). Like Mexico’s gentile intellectuals, it’s remarkable that Krauze is so blind about what’s going on in the world, specifically Ukraine’s upcoming surrender.

Yesterday I watched an interview on YouTube with a veteran Spanish intellectual, much saner than all these Mexicans. This Spaniard, having listened to what John Mearsheimer and others say about the Ukrainian war, sees the dynamics between states from a sane viewpoint. By contrast, the Mexicans alluded to, Gentile and Jewish, are as narcissistic as my old friend Marco: that poor devil whom I stopped seeing for decades and when I saw him again I found him in a state of narcissistic psychosis (this time I won’t link to the six entries I devoted, on this site, to the ‘Marco case’).

The point is that both a narcissist in a psychotic state and the intellectuals alluded to have something in common. Their mental system of perceiving the world can be understood as a sort of hemi-permeable membrane that only lets in positive feedback. No negative feedback, which would challenge the narcissists’ worldview, enters their minds. That’s why they say such extraordinary things, as linked above in the posts Krauze retweeted.

Of my readers, only Benjamin has been interested, as I have, in Silvano Arieti’s book about schizophrenia, which I quote in Day of Wrath. One of Arieti’s sentences that most impressed me was that, by studying specific cases of psychosis (say, like Marco’s), it is possible to understand why non-psychotic people (say, Mexican intellectuals) use identical defence mechanisms. The only difference is that in the case of the psychotic, his madness has already marginalised him from society, which is not the case with those ideological narcissists perfectly adapted to society, even if their worldview is also lunatic.

Midday Update:

Compare the semipermeable membrane of the Mexicans mentioned with the interview with another sane Spaniard that I saw today, Juan Antonio Aguilar.

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Mainstream media Mexico City

Blue pill

What I said in my 17 January post, ‘Relocation’, that I’m so busy vacating my house and finding a new home that I don’t have time to blog, is accurate. But I’m taking advantage of this morning when I woke up shortly after 4:00 a.m. to say something.

The inauguration of Donald Trump’s second term has corroborated what I have been saying about Latin America: it is the subcontinent of the blue pill, in the sense that the thinking classes vehemently reject the red one.

After the inauguration, I took the trouble to canvass the opinions of several Mexican intellectuals in the country’s MSM.

I was surprised that they all agreed on issues related to Trump’s decrees, such as COVID vaccines (i.e., Mexican intellectuals swallow everything the WHO said), being alarmed at the renewed American care of the Rio Grande border, buying into the myth of the ‘violent assault’ on the US Capitol in January 2021, or that it wasn’t a political ploy that Trump was found guilty of the charges he faced in a historic trial in New York. By and large, Mexican intellectuals rebuke the will of the American people to have re-elected Trump because of the latter’s policy on Mexico and far prefer Joe Biden.

The people I saw on those TV programmes after Trump’s inauguration are well educated. Their handling of Spanish is better than mine in the sense of the wealth of common metaphors and idioms in journalism. But all the IQ, erudition, and superb command of the language of Cervantes of about twenty-five intellectuals I saw talking at several round tables go down the drain when trying to understand what is happening in the neighbouring country to the north.

I could have included more pictures of the Mexican intellectuals I saw in these programmes. But I chose only two pictures because it shocked me that, in different TV programmes, Javier Tello (first pic) said nothing to his guest. This Woke woman was extremely dismayed that Trump dared to say that ‘there are only two biological sexes’ (as if everyone knew that sex is not binary but a spectrum!). Federico Reyes Heroles (second pic) went further: he wasn’t only shocked by Trump’s statement that there are only two sexes, but was very concerned about how, after Trump’s reloaded presidency, trans people will feel…

Let there be no doubt: all Mexican intellectuals, including those with white skin, sleep peacefully in the Matrix that controls them.

7:29 a.m. postscript:

These cultured Mexicans are grotesquely dishonest.

Another of the intellectual women invited to the roundtable chaired by Javier Tello, in disapproving of Trump’s decree on the two sexes, spoke of the egalitarian ideals of the founding fathers of the US—omitting that neither those fathers nor anyone else, until recently, believed that sex (‘gender’ in today’s Newspeak) is simply binary!

Postscript of January 31:

All the Mexican intellectuals I see in the MSM regurgitate politically correct orthodoxy. For example, one well-known intellectual expressed concern that Trump wouldn’t help Ukraine if elected (ignoring that Biden brought us to the brink of nuclear confrontation by launching rockets at Russia!).

Other Mexican intellectuals blamed global warming for the fires in Los Angeles, ignoring that the ‘inclusive’ measures of the lesbian fire chief, and the governor of California, were fatal in preventing it!

Postscript of February 1:

A couple of days ago, Mexican journalist Eduardo Ruiz Healy (pic left) said that Trump had a screw loose for having suggested in a press conference that a ‘diverse’ air traffic controller could kill you, referring to the recent crash at Washington’s airport.

In fact he is the crazy one, and the rest of the Mexican ‘intelligentsia’—or rather dumb reporters—, for refusing to see the obvious. See Jared Taylor’s recent video, ‘Think Twice Before You Fly’.

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Kali Yuga Miscegenation Painting

2 founding fathers

In the middle of the year I added a post in which I was alarmed about the existence of serial child killers in the US. These last few days, however, I have seen a lot of videos of horrific murders committed by American adults on other adults.

I won’t mention the names of the perpetrators, which you can easily find out by looking them up on YouTube. Still, I am now thinking of a young Aryan lad in whose room his mother found a bag containing a human head (in police interrogation the lad gloated that he had destroyed the corpse’s eyes with a knife); a woman who had killed her mother and hid her body in the garage until the cops found her; another woman who killed seven of her newborn babies and collected their corpses in boxes that began to smell bad; a man who suffered from the same disease that depressed Robin Williams but, unlike the famous actor, butchered his wife with a small but sharp knife (the video reveals that the policeman who entered the crime scene had to get out and throw up the turkey because of what he had seen, as the day before had been Thanksgiving Day), etcetera.

There is no doubt that American society is sick. But the serious thing is that practically no one, not even white nationalists, realises the causes of the spiritual sickness that has befallen their society. Only Americans like Francis Parker Yockey began to sense the cause, but his best-known work, Imperium, was written in prose so opaque that, in my opinion, it is no longer of any use to us in this century.

Writing in prose so clear and transparent that the essentials can be said in a short blog post, the darkest hour (Kali Yuga) not only of the US but of the West began in 1945. Two of the featured posts that can be read on the menu of this site, ‘Founding Myth’ and ‘The Iron Throne’ deal with the matter and I need not repeat myself. What I would like to clarify today is something else.

I have recently said some very harsh things about the ‘Founding Father’ of the Americans, George Washington, because of his philo-Semitism. But I, born south of the Rio Grande, could say the same about the Founding Father of Mexico: Hernán Cortés.

Cortés and La Malinche is a mural by José Clemente Orozco frescoed in 1926. It is preserved on the main staircase of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, located in the centre of Mexico City.

Cortés not only conquered Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1519-1521, the seat of the Aztec empire, but also initiated the interbreeding of Iberian White and American Indian. One need only travel to contemporary Mexico to see the ravages of this miscegenation sanctioned by both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Crown.

Now, as I have also said recently, the pre-Christian Visigoths of ancient Hispania burned at the stake any couple who dared to procreate a mongrel baby. What a reversal of values between this taboo of the pagan Goths and the 16th-century mixing perpetrated throughout the American continent! (remember that a large part of what is now the US belonged to New Spain).

This miscegenation on a scale never seen before was, in my opinion, worse than Washington’s philo-Semitism because it condemned the newly discovered continent to perennial underdevelopment, at least in the part that was colonised by the Spaniards and the Portuguese.

By expressing myself in this way about the country of my birth, I have become such an outcast that I have not a single friend, so I never carry with me my cellphone (which I only use for my bank account). But what I want to get at is that, if I express myself in this way about Cortés and the Iberian conquistadors who mixed their blood, why shouldn’t I also express myself harshly about the Founding Father of the neighbouring country to the north and his philo-Semitic epigones?

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Mexico City Videos

Cartels

Yesterday I spent most of the day watching videos interviewing Ed Calderón. In the intellectual bubble in which I find myself (I live in a large house overlooking a garden), I have tended to despise everything about the country outside my bubble insofar as it is not an Aryan country. But recently a person very close to me had a problem with one of the drug cartels.

I thought they hadn’t yet arrived in the Mexican capital to try to extort money from civilians, but the anecdote disabused me and made me do some research. This long interview with Ed Calderón, a former Mexican police officer who speaks perfect English, portrays the situation magnificently.

Incredible as it may seem, it is less risky for someone like me to live in a cartel country than in Europe, if we remember what happened earlier this year with two commenters on this site who were jailed in the UK basically for thoughtcrime (just as others who more recently posted racist comments on Facebook were jailed even though their protest at the murder of English girls was legitimate).

So, for the moment, I am safer in the country of the drug cartels, which are already beginning to exert their influence in the great Mexican capital, than in cuck island!

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Mexico City Miscegenation

Jewess president

Mural depicting Claudia Sheinbaum as a Jedi in a Star Wars scene.

In the comments section of the previous post, Dale Jansen asks me:

Could you blog on your new Jewess President of Mexico. How did that happen? I would have thought that Mexicans were more naturally racist than that. Aren’t brown Mexicans more anti-Semitic than Whites? Also, we’re getting reports of upwards of around 40 political assassinations throughout Mexico. Could you describe that phenomenon. Is that purely the result of Amerindian violence and drug cartels?

It’s one thing for me to live in Mexico, it’s another to be interested in its politics or society. It may surprise you that I try not to find out what is going on in this country.

This is because, since the mestizaje was consumed, the bulk of Spanish speakers, the very few Criollos included, have been addicted to the blue pill. It is easier for neighbours north of the Rio Grande to take the red one for the simple fact that many haven’t mixed their blood. Here’s how someone who took the red pill sees things:

The Amerindians that ruled Mesoamerica from 2500 b.c.e. to 1521 c.e. were a culture of serial killers (cf. my book Day of Wrath). When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the first thing they did was to interbreed with these serial killers! (albeit males marrying Indian women, not white women marrying Indian males). After importing black Africans for the hardest tasks, tri-racial miscegenation was consummated during the Spanish viceroyalty.

The Mexican War of Independence, fought by Criollos, mestizos, Indians and mulattos (1810-1821), was a war against the peninsular whites. And the Mexican Revolution a hundred years later reduced racial taboos and encouraged the rise of non-Criollos.

Mexicans today have internalised the current western narrative (feminism, LGBT, idealisation of pre-Columbian Mexico, etc.) with such violence that, in all Mexican media, there is not even a ‘purple pill’ to half-awaken them.

I have written extensively on the Mexican racial question in the third autobiographical book of my trilogy. If you don’t know Spanish and want to find out my views on the subject, you can do so using Google Translate and read what I have written on my site La hora más oscura para la raza blanca. There you will see that the situation in Latin America is beyond repair because of what I said above: they are addicted to the blue pill.

To make matters worse, the highly mesticized Mexicans you mention have a lower IQ than the pure Criollo, and even the latter sleeps peacefully in the ethno-suicidal matrix that controls him. If the Criollo sleeps, you can imagine the depth of sleep in the common mestizo, not to mention the Indians with very little white blood. Indeed: the murders we are increasingly suffering in the country are a product of the birth rate of the latter compared to the ever-dwindling Criollos. Jared Taylor has published statistics on how low IQ influences the crime rate in the US, and this applies equally to Latin America.

The subcontinent is a basket case, and not worth spending my time deciphering except what I have written in my third book and La hora más oscura para la raza blanca.

As far as the new president is concerned, last year I posted a brief note about the Jewish community in Mexico City. Since I have lived here for decades, I have been several times to the zone where most Jews live, Polanco, which looks like a first-world area compared to others in the great Mexican metropolis. But there is no anti-Semitism in Mexico for the same reason that there is no anti-Semitism in the US, even though there are many more JQ-conscious people in the US than south of the Rio Grande.

My suggestion to the pure Criollo, or the American who hasn’t yet polluted his blood, is to forget about these forsaken lands of the hands of the Gods and focus on trying to understand the reason for the Aryan decline. To this end, my next project will be to put together a new anthology to complement my old anthology of blog posts, Daybreak.

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Child abuse Film Mexico City

Los Olvidados

Known in the US as The Young and the Damned (1950)

 
This is the only Mexican film on my list of 50. The director wasn’t Mexican but Spanish, Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), whom I met in the living room of Arturo Souto Alabarce’s family a few years before he died. Part of Los Olvidados was filmed very close to where I now live, although the area has changed a lot in the last seventy-three years.

As a young man Buñuel studied in Madrid and emigrated to Paris, where he and Salvador Dalí made two films of the surrealist movement, one of which was banned in Spain. After an unsuccessful stay in the United States, and being unable to return to Franco’s Spain, Buñuel moved to Mexico and became a Mexican citizen. He was even awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 and a Hollywood Oscar for his 1972 film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but he didn’t go to collect it.

If Los Olvidados has any value, it is because, even now, there is not a single degree of how the mistreatment of parents destroys their children’s lives. 1973 and 1980 mark bibliographical milestones with the publication of Lloyd deMause’s History of Childhood and Alice Miller’s Am Anfang war Erziehung. For the first time, the magnitude of the psychological toll of childhood abuse—i.e., mental disorders—was discussed with due solidarity. But their work has become taboo in the so-called mental health professions.

Another facet of the toll of parental abuse is destitution: the number of street children who roam the Third World’s cities. Kids flee the violence at home and society plays dumb. A blocking appears at the beginning of Los Olvidados:

The great modern cities, New York, Paris and London hide behind their magnificent buildings, homes of misery that house abused children, without hygiene, without schooling: breeding grounds for future delinquents. Society is trying to correct this evil, but the success of its efforts is very limited. Only in the near future can the rights of children and adolescents be vindicated so that they can be useful to society. Mexico, the great modern city, is no exception to this universal rule.

Near future, really? In so-called developing countries, never in history have there been so many destitute children as there are today—much more than in the times when Luis Buñuel made his film. And most cases of child destitution are due to physical or emotional violence in the home.

In a personal letter to Buñuel, Benjamin Viel said that he hadn’t seen a clearer indictment of the supposed maternal instinct than in a dialogue of Los Olvidados. In contrast to the stereotype of the good and loving mother, Buñuel showed the detachment of parents from their children: a transgression that caused great fury in Mexico when the film was released in December 1950. Viewers’ discomfort with unmotherly mothers was so evident that even one of the film’s production staff resigned. Not even Gus van Sant’s Elephant, a Cannes award-winning film of the new century about teenagers with family problems, gets to the core of children’s pain as in Los Olvidados:

Pedro: Why do you hit me, because I’m hungry?
Mother: And I’m going to kill you, you scoundrel.
Pedro: You don’t love me.
Mother: Why should I love you?

The plot of the film can be read in the English Wikipedia article, and anyone who wants to watch the movie can do so on YouTube. In a nutshell, Los Olvidados is a fictionalised documentary featuring disparate characters such as El Jaibo and Pedro: a teenager and a smaller kid of different ilk: the former tends to be a troublemaker and the latter to be well-behaved. Both, however, wander hopelessly through the slums of Mexico City. The film ends in tragedy: the body of the boy Pedro, murdered by Jaibo, ends up in a rubbish dump.