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Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:33 pm Why democracy fails
Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is it not on this wise: the good at which such a State aims is to become as rich as possible, a desire which is insatiable?

What then?

The rulers being aware that their power rests upon their wealth, refuse to curtail by law the extravagance of the spendthrift youth because they gain by their ruin; they take interest from them and buy up their estates and thus increase their own wealth and importance?

To be sure.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same State to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

That is tolerably clear.

And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary?

Yes, often.

And still they remain in the city; there they are, ready to sting and fully armed, and some of them owe money, some have forfeited their citizenship; a third class are in both predicaments; and they hate and conspire against those who have got their property, and against everybody else, and are eager for revolution.

That is true.

On the other hand, the men of business, stooping as they walk, and pretending not even to see those whom they have already ruined, insert their sting—that is, their money—into someone else who is not on his guard against them, and recover the parent sum many times over multiplied into a family of children: and so they make drone and pauper to abound in the State.

Yes, he said, there are plenty of them—that is certain.

The evil blazes up like a fire; and they will not extinguish it either by restricting a man's use of his own property, or by another remedy.

What other?

One which is the next best, and has the advantage of compelling the citizens to look to their characters: Let there be a general rule that everyone shall enter into voluntary contracts at his own risk, and there will be less of this scandalous moneymaking, and the evils of which we were speaking will be greatly lessened in the State.

Yes, they will be greatly lessened.

At present the governors, induced by the motives which I have named, treat their subjects badly; while they and their adherents, especially the young men of the governing class, are habituated to lead a life of luxury and idleness both of body and mind; they do nothing, and are incapable of resisting either pleasure or pain.

Very true.

They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue.

Yes, quite as indifferent.

Such is the state of affairs which prevails among them. And often rulers and their subjects may come in one another's way, whether on a journey or on some other occasion of meeting, on a pilgrimage or a march, as fellow-soldiers or fellowsailors; aye, and they may observe the behavior of each other in the very moment of danger—for where danger is, there is no fear that the poor will be despised by the rich—and very likely the wiry, sunburnt poor man may be placed in battle at the side of a wealthy one who has never spoilt his complexion and has plenty of superfluous flesh—when he sees such a one puffing and at his wits'-end, how can he avoid drawing the conclusion that men like him are only rich because no one has the courage to despoil them? And when they meet in private will not people be saying to one another, "Our warriors are not good for much"?

Yes, he said, I am quite aware that this is their way of talking.

And, as in a body which is diseased the addition of a touch from without may bring on illness, and sometimes even when there is no external provocation, a commotion may arise within—in the same way wherever there is weakness in the State there is also likely to be illness, of which the occasion may be very slight, the one party introducing from without their oligarchical, the other their democratical allies, and then the State falls sick, and is at war with herself; and may be at times distracted, even when there is no external cause.

Yes, surely.

And then democracy comes into being after the poor have conquered their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing some, while to the remainder they give an equal share of freedom and power; and this is the form of government in which the magistrates are commonly elected by lot.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/book08.html
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Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 01:21 pm Open Source software fails
Open wisdom-of-crowds software movements have become influential, but they haven.t promoted the kind of radical creativity I love most in computer science. If anything, they've been hindrances. Some of the youngest, brightest minds have been trapped in a 1970s intellectual framework because they are hypnotized into accepting old software designs as if they were facts of nature. Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique, shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
..
Why are so many of the more sophisticated examples of code in the online world.like the page-rank algorithms in the top search engines or like Adobe's Flash -- the results of proprietary development? Why did the adored iPhone come out of what many regard as the most closed, tyrannically managed software-development shop on Earth? An honest empiricist must conclude that while the open approach has been able to create lovely, polished copies, it hasn't been so good at creating notable originals. Even though the open-source movement has a stinging countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force.
..
The open-source software community is simply too turbulent to focus its tests and maintain its criteria over an extended duration, and that is a prerequisite to evolving highly original things. There is only one iPhone, but there are hundreds of Linux releases. A closed-software team is a human construction that can tie down enough variables so that software becomes just a little more like a hardware chip.and note that chips, the most encapsulated objects made by humans, get better and better following an exponential pattern of improvement known as Moore's law.

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source-software/


Isn't most Open Source software just clones of existing products, with a few changes to make them better, mostly borrowed from closed-source software? Firefox stole tabbed browsing from Opera, but there were precursors even before that. OpenOffice is an inferior copy of Microsoft Office.
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Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 12:39 pm Indo-Burmese Nationalism Rising

'We had a meeting last year in Thailand attended by rebel leaders from the northeast to revamp the Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front (IBRF). Details are being worked out,' Kughalo Mulatonu, a top leader of the S.S. Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K), told IANS.

The IBRF was formed on May 22, 1990, by a frontline rebel group in Manipur, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), along with other insurgent groups operating in the region like the NSCN-K and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The coalition was then aimed at waging a 'united struggle for the independence of Indo-Burma', but failed to act as a cohesive grouping and gradually became defunct.

Asked whether the rebel groups have plans to intensify their insurrection against the government under a common platform, Mulatonu said: 'The idea is not to launch a joint campaign against India or Burma (Myanmar). The idea is to usher in greater unity among the people in the region.'

http://www.indiaenews.com/india/20071111/79962.htm


Makes sense to me. Big governments try to represent everyone and fail, so they create an average and oppress others with it. Local, nationalized governments on the other hand deliver flexibility and preserve culture.
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Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 12:28 pm CORRUPT tshirts


Looks like CORRUPT has finally gotten its act together and made some tshirts. They are also offering hilariously unPC yet PC stickers.



You can get these and more at the CORRUPT merchandise page, although the sale is non-profit and does not put any money in CORRUPT's pockets. These are the people who brought you, among other things, Hessian Studies and The Dark Legions Archive, the net's oldest underground metal resource.
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Nov. 27th, 2006 @ 11:42 pm Nationalism
Nationalism develops from the idea that the nation, in contrast to the nation-state, is formed of the indigenous people to an area. It is the longest-lasting and most sensible form of government, for it groups together people who have culture, heritage and language in common. The modern nation-state imposes political boundaries on an area, moves people into it, and declares it a "nation," but without this lack of inherent consensus such states become marketplaces instead of living cultural entities.

http://www.pan-nationalism.org/nationalism/
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Nov. 21st, 2006 @ 04:01 pm Sometimes...
Sometimes our society drives me nuts. Misled by ecclesiastical notions, we divide the world into good and evil, yet in this world of symbols we never see reality. Our deception enables us to misguidedly ignore the continuous nature of existence, in which natural selection is one color in the palette of the gods that helps refine us toward higher levels of organization, and instead select the entropic path to meaningless existence, when if we just accepted reality and then made the best of it, we would live in the best possible paradise. C'est la vie, I suppose, but it would be nice if someone put us back on track to a healthier civilization before we have to submit to the insanity of the crowd. We're not the only species in this universe, and no god is going to save us from ourselves, and it's most likely we'll end up a plateau of evolution forshortened, where the parasitic rich rule the oblivious grey race of lumpenproletariat. Sure would suck for our entire species to fail, but that looks like the future, unless, of course, we fight back.
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Nov. 17th, 2006 @ 08:40 pm Jobs eat ass
http://www.lulu.com/content/510822

Air in the Paragraph Line issue #11 is a concept zine about: jobs. Since most of us detest them, it produced some vitriolic and often humorous content. VP is published in the second half of the zine with a 20-page short story about the relationship between jobs and the end of the world.
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Nov. 12th, 2006 @ 09:56 pm Salvation Army sues ANUS.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ANUS.com Refutes Corporate Attempts at Media Domination
Salvation Army Rebuked for Aggression Against Net Critics

November 13, 2006
ANUS News

The Salvation Army, a $3.1 billion dollar "charity" that helps shelter corporations from taxes in exchange for minimal effort spent "helping" the impoverished, today threatened ANUS.com's domain name provider with legal action over a graphics file that satirized the Salvation Army logo. The Salvation Army's law firm, a beltway favorite known for its closeness to large business interests, threatened to remove the ANUS.com domain from the internet by Friday evening if the graphic was not censored.

"This is a classic case of aggressive image control by a parasitic organization," said ANUS writer Thomas Martinez. "The Salvation Army is hoping that its unchallenged violation of law, since American law specifically allows satirical or journalistic depictions of logo and trademarks, will allow it to control any associated image or symbol." Martinez pointed out that financial gain can be achieved with punitive lawsuits and that this case could set a precedent by which smaller web sites could be bullied by those "with the money or tax-deductible status to have an army of attorneys.

The graphic portrayed a similar icon to the familiar Salvation Army shield motif, but labeled it "The Satanic Army," offending the Christian organization which received increased funding under President Bush[1 and is known for firing non-Christians and homosexuals[2]. Although the Salvation Army believes it is strengthening itself, like modern society it is instead showing the world its impotence by attempting to control reality through symbols when reality is far more independent than human pretense allows.

read more...
[url=http://www.anus.com/zine/news/1014.html]ANUS.com Refutes Corporate Attempts at Media Domination[/url]
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Sep. 15th, 2006 @ 08:26 pm Which whites should be culled?
It seems to me that if one believes in the white race, one wants to make it better. And right now, we're kind of lagging behind. Average IQ of 102-107? Shoot, that means over half of society is hunkered down near the 100 mark. Can you imagine being that stupid? And these people vote, buy things, and cause other problems as well.

I'm not talking about which groups should be eliminated -- we all know the Christians should follow the Slavs, homosexuals (the English), Irish, Canadians and SUV owners into the ovens and thus onto the rose gardens of Europe -- but which individuals. What's a good criterion? Here's my general listing.

POSITIVE

Intelligence higher than 120 points +3
Intelligence over 130 points +5
Has started own non-degenerate business +3
Serves in effective, non-degenerate volunteer capacity +3
Has created non-degenerate, effective art +3
Has completed higher education +3

NEGATIVE

Drug addiction including alcohol -3
Rape, hard crime -5
Christianity -3
Watches TV -1
Smokes weed -1
Drives V-8 -1
Posts on VNN -1
Posts on CounterOrder -3

Everyone starts at zero, and if they make it over 5, they survive.

If not... THE OVENS AWAIT, UNTERMENSCHEN!

What will be left are future healthy generations of white people with fewer than 1/10 of 1% having last names ending in -ski/sky, -vich or -ov.
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Sep. 10th, 2006 @ 08:13 pm Happy 9-11
Another day of happy annual of September 11th has come upon us. By the Will of Allah (Subhanahu wa-Ta'ala) in the year 2001, the brave Moslem men took in to the perilous task of defending their Faith and Family from the clutches of an imperialistic expansionist empire, The United States of America. The aim of such action was to send a ever-piercing message to the Western World: You are exploiting our people and our generosity and the present course of action must stop or the whole Moslem world will declare Jihad against the profane empire of USA.

[url=http://anus.com/zine/news/1014.html]Happy 9-11 From Osama bin Ladin and Amerika.org[/url]

[url=http://www.amerika.org]Al-Qaeda Appreciation Society of North America[/url]
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Aug. 3rd, 2006 @ 10:18 pm Israel, the Insoluble
Israel's policy has been for some years now to hold off its Arab nations with two powers: its submarine-delivered nuclear missiles and the military might of the United States. Jews and Muslims know their faiths are incompatible and that one alone can rule the Middle East.


An intelligent policy for Israel would be to admit that only ethnic Jews belong in Israel, and to exclude all others and cease trying to influence broader policy in the region. This contradicts the Western mandate of multiculturalism and would make Israel an obvious "bad guy" according to centuries of Judeo-Christian thought, so this cannot be publically admitted. A grotesque compromise results.


When Muslims look at the United States, they see a country that elects exclusively church-going leaders. They see a right wing dominated by radical Christian interests, and a left predominantly financed and driven by radical Jewish interests. They see AIPAC, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee, be accused of stealing state secrets and executing phone taps, and no vast action being taken.

http://www.corrupt.org/articles/israel/
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Aug. 2nd, 2006 @ 09:20 pm Environmentalism contra Democracy in heavy metal
Thinking non-selfishly for a minute, we should look at the consequences of natural loss with a poet's eye: we are about to lose an amazing creation of great beauty and inspiration, and thus not only damage our souls, but be responsible for an act of crass destructiveness with no equal in history. The sack of Alexandria, the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide -- these all pale in comparison to reducing our environment to parks, gardens and lawns. Which is what will remain: we will have squirrels and sparrows and lawn plants, but the more complex parts of our ecosystem will not remain. Our political leaders will be able to claim less of a crisis because it isn't all dead, but converting a world of billions of species into an extended, homogenous backyard garden is like trading Beethoven for repetitive techno.

The kind of mean mentality that allows us to create this ...wreckage... is appropriate to an outwardly satisfied but inwardly self-hating time such as our own. We hate our ugly cities, our tedious jobs that produce nothing of practical value, our prima donna spouses, our moronic coworkers and neighbors, the violent inner cities, the numbingly normative suburbs... yet we are sure there is nothing that can be done. How do we explain to the average person that they must give up that new car, house or child because if everyone has those, a distant future disaster awaits? Democracy rewards action on immediate crises, or granting of new "freedoms" or wealths to its population, but it does not reward the kind of leadership that staves off distant apocalypses.

http://anus.com/zine/articles/prozak/ecocide/

I find this to be very true: no matter how much heavy metal and black metal bands sing about ancient forests and the beauty of wolves, the average person isn't going to stop polluting/trashing until there's a gun in their back!
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Jul. 25th, 2006 @ 01:18 am Corrupt.org UPdate
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Vijay Prozak presents to us a vision of how we can transcend the symbolic
but meaningless politics of today, in order to work towards goals that can
help us build up a better future

"Arbitrary" - http://corrupt.org/articles/arbitrary/i

Corrupt.org writes about how our political stances distract us from focusing
on things of far greater worth than our own self-importance

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Apr. 26th, 2006 @ 04:41 pm List of Nationalist Parties by Nation
List of Nationalist Groups
( v1.1 / April 26, 2006 )

Nationalism is a system of government whereby each nation is defined as the intersection of those who are of indigenous heritage, culture and language. The goal of this organic power structure is a preservation of the unique ethnocultures which in have adapted to the same needs in parallel with different methods.

This diversity forms our strength as a species, but to take advantage of this, we must preserve each ethnic group by separating them all; this allows every nation to rule its people autonomously according to local standards, replacing utilitarian abstractions like money, popularity and mass media. Further, each population is bound to a hereditary land area and thus sees itself as guardians of that zone, creating a high degree of environmental and social awareness.

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PAN-NATIONALIST PARTIES
http://www.nazi.org/

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NATIONALIST PARTIES

African
http://www.blackpanther.org/
http://www.theblacknationalist.com/

American
http://www.nationalistpartyusa.com/
http://www.folkandfaith.com
http://www.attackthesystem.com/
http://www.forwardparty.net/

American Nativist
http://www.anu.org/

American Southern
http://www.southernnationalist.org/

Australian
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~natinfo/

Austria
http://www.fpoe.at/

Bangladeshi
http://www.bnpbd.com/

Basque
http://www.eaj-pnv.com/

Belgian
http://www.frontnational.be/

Boer
http://www.awb.co.za/

Brazilian
http://www.integralismo.com.br/

British
http://www.bnp.org.uk/
http://www.blackplough.co.uk/
http://www.englishindependence.org.uk/
http://www.oswaldmosley.com/
http://www.politicalsoldier.net/
http://www.freedompartyuk.net/
http://www.national-anarchist.org/albion/
http://www.englishfellowship.org/
http://www.independentmercia.org/
http://www.devolve.org/
http://www.natfront.com/
http://www.spearhead.com/

Bulgarian
http://www.vestnikataka.com/

Chinese
http://www.kmt.org.tw/

Danish
http://www.dnsb.info/
http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/

Finnish
http://www.kansallissosialismi.com/
http://www.suomensisu.org/

Flemish
http://www.vlaamsbelang.org/

French
http://www.frontnational.com/

German
http://www.npd.de/
http://www.ab-west.net/
http://www.aktionmitte.de/
http://www.widerstandnord.com/aktionsbuero/
http://www.ab-rhein-neckar.de/
http://www.aktionsbuero-saar.de/
http://www.widerstandsued.de/
http://www.aktionsbuero.org/seite/
http://www.kds-im-netz.de/
http://www.bfz-celle.de.vu/
http://www.dvu.de/

Greek
http://www.hellas.org/
http://www.e-grammes.gr/

Hawaiian
http://www.freehawaii.org/

Indian
http://www.nazi.org/community/nations/india/
http://www.hindutva.org/
http://geocities.com/akhandbharat1947/

Indo-European
http://nordwave.net/

Iranian
http://iranianforaryans.blogspot.com/
http://neonazi.blogfa.com/
http://www.iranianhitler.blogfa.com/
http://naskaparty-english.blogfa.com/
http://www.iranian.ws/
http://www.sumka.blogfa.com/

Irish
http://irelandsown.net/

Italian North
http://www.leganord.org/

Japanese
http://www.nsjap.net/

Libyan
http://www.qadhafi.org/

Maltese
http://www.pn.org.mt/

Manx
http://www.manxman.co.im/mecvan/

Mexican
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://aztlanrising.com/
http://www.mexica-movement.org/
http://members.libreopinion.com/mnsm/
http://www.aztlan.cjb.net/
http://www.mexicauprising.net/
http://www.alianzaindigena.org/

Nepalese
http://www.nspn.blogspot.com/

Norwegian
http://www.nnsb.net/

Portuguese
http://www.pnr.pt/

Quebecois
http://english.republiquelibre.org/
http://www.independance-quebec.com/

Russian
http://nationalism.org/

Scottish
http://www.snp.org/

Spanish
http://www.la-falange.com/

Swedish
http://www.kultorg.com/
http://www.nsfront.info/
http://www.motstand.org/nrp/
http://www.nd.se/

Swiss
http://www.svp.ch/

Syrian
http://www.ssnp.com/

Tamil
http://www.tamilnation.org/

Turkish
http://www.turkcu.net/
http://www.celikmigfer.com/

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The term "nationalism"...raises questions about the concept of nation (or national identity), which is often defined in terms of common origin, ethnicity, or cultural ties...

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nationalism/

State formation is limited to one type of group: nations or peoples. These groups have distinct characteristics: permanence, transgenerationality, and long-term convergence around a core culture.

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/plana.html#intro

Nationalists argue that nations are timeless phenomena. When man climbed out of the primordial slime, he immediately set about creating nations.

http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm

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Apr. 20th, 2006 @ 08:54 pm Democracy
[img]http://www.anus.com/etc/dimebag/democracy.jpg[/img]

These were all Democratic decisions.

1. [url=http://www.gensuikin.org/english/photo.html]Hiroshima and Nagasaki[/url]

2. [url=http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-75-1390/science_technology/great_lakes_pollution/]Pollution of the Great Lakes[/url]

3. [url=http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/apr01bilezikyan.htm]Extermination of Buffalo[/url]

4. [url=http://www.waco93.com/]Massacre of Branch Davidians in Waco, TX[/url]

5. [url=http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/STT99_WQ/STT99/Houston_HS/rugell/webquestltr.htm]Frog deformities from pollution[/url]

6. [url=http://www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm]Concentration Camps invented by the British[/url]

7. [url=http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=201271]NATO bombing of Belgrade, YU[/url]

8. [url=http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=201271]Echelon[/url]

9. [url=http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Sanders0401.htm]Starving Iraqi Children[/url]

10. [url=http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0810564.html]Reconstruction[/url]

It's not just America that's the problem.
[b]It's democracy.[/b]
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Apr. 20th, 2006 @ 08:19 am How to have peace
How to Have Peace, Finally

1. End Envy. When everyone in society competes for money alone, envy and resentment run high and so does sleight of hand behavior. Let's stop the rat race. In a healthy culture, every job is important and given its place, and no one is left to rot at the bottom of the competitive heap except blatant incompetents.

2. Reduce pollution and urban blight. We're all scrabbling toward the top of the pile so we don't get left in a ghetto. But running away to the suburbs no longer protects us from deranged urban dwellers. A solution is to fix our cities and o put some people in jail for life if all they do is destroy things.

3. Kick our oil dependency. Oil is our heroin, our crack, our meth. We need a certain amount of it to run our economy. But do we really need individual cars, especially since they don't help us outrun the mess of the city? Do we really need all of these products? We can do just as well with less, and in fact be happier.

4. Support diversity. To have diversity, you need to have distinct ethnic groups. If you try to combine these groups, they'll fight for their own right to exist as a group and cause the ethnic warfare common to multicultural society. Let the ethnic groups separate and stop viewing such separation as a taboo "racism."

5. Don't try to hide different abilities. Billy is a genius, but Mary is a world-class athlete. We get embarrassed for both of these kids because they can't do something the other can. Let's end that charade. We're all different and we each have a place in the world. We don't need to be "equal" to be OK, and trying to force "equality" causes mayhem.

6. Allow people to live according to chosen values, even if they seem grotesque to us. In the west, our newspapers tell us that Muslims are primitive, women-abusing, tribal societies. But there is no science or philosophy that tells us reliability that such lifestyles are "bad." Tolerate difference.

7. Stop the war on drugs. Some people are gonna take 'em, and some are gonna drink to excess. Just keep them away from the kids and when they're observed screwing up on the job, fire them. We cannot afford the violence and police militarization of the war on drugs.

8. Forget the war between the sexes. If being equal means we gotta fight and have the 50% chance of divorce for every marriage we have, forget it. Let's respect each other for what we are and try to get along with more respect. "Equality" might be an illusory goal, since we've each got different equipment, inside and out, but respect and compassion are eternal.

9. Reverence. We're so busy chasing the holy dollar we've forgotten what it is to love life. Ancient monks in secluded monasteries saw intense concentration on tasks and appreciation of life as a form of prayer. Maybe this kind of soul stillness and inner beauty is missing in our lives, and we need to bring it back.

10. Open-mindedness. "Tolerance" implies not liking something, but putting up with it. Instead, we should try to understand that we each have different paths, and there is no ordained single route to glory. There are some things that are a good idea for everyone, but you have to do it for yourself. Be open-minded in the original meaning -- we know the goal, but there's more than one way to get there.

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Mar. 6th, 2006 @ 04:23 pm Anti-Racist Nationalists
Anti-Racist Nationalists

The average person cannot distinguish between patriotism, nationalism and racism, and it is a mistake to assume they are degrees of the same order. Patriotism and racism are parts of the current political system, where nationalism is an order that has come both before and will come after the current order. It is a worldview and type of civilization that is irreconciliably opposed to the type of society we call "modern," and is equally opposed to both patriotism and racism.

Nationalism is understanding of each society as an organic entity. It is neither individualist nor collectivist, but is founded upon the belief that in the mathematics of the universe there are incentives to live according to a certain design, and that we as individuals fulfill this design, which includes but is not limited to the collective or the individual. The individual both serves this design and is served by it, for it provides a more stable and nourishing society than modernity can.

Malcolm X, Black NationalistModern civilizations are organized and distinguished from one another by political concerns, which are abstract rules applied uniformly to individuals who are presumed to be of equivalent tastes, needs and inclinations; they are utilitarian by their nature, which is propelled by the needs of industry to have equal workers to continue the flow of profits. Their goal is not empowerment of the citizen, but the use of empowerment to drive the citizen into traps of his or her own making, preventing an interruption in the flow of memoryless, cultureless labor who can be molded into the patterns of thought needed to drive society's machines.

While these societies speak of "freedom," "equality" and "peace," what they generally intend is to release the citizen from all obligations except earning income, at which point the competitive nature of earning income drives citizens toward increasing allegiance to the system that manipulates them. Modern societies focus on the external factors of human existence, such as that we are all individuals, and by treating us alike hope to instill in us the same motivation; this makes us easy to manipulate and predict. Such societies by recognizing the external factors of our lives in equality deny the internal and unequal factors, and thus give us nothing for which to strive to prove our individual worth except money. They produce people of low self-confidence as a result, and these people in turn detest anyone who hopes to rise above the artificially-conditioned "equality" of servitude.

Nationalist societies are based on an eternal order which will benefit the entirety of any civilization, including the collective, its component individuals, and the surrounding environment. They do this by targetting the internal, or what makes us truly individuals, and by giving to each a place in which he or she can serve a larger order. Nationalist societies are thus both anti-individualistic, and affirming of the greater worth of the individual; there is no single competition for greatness, as the battle for wealth provides, but a sense of having a place in a cosmic order mirrored in a naturalistic human society.

To this end, in nationalist societies, we are each seen as having a place defined by heredity, with those who prove aptitude for another task being shifted to it more permanently over the course of generations. This means that the son of a baker may never grow rich as a king, but that he will never be impoverished, either, barring complete incompetence or large criminal activity. We recognize that people cannot be controlled externally, and that only our internal inclinations to be either constructive or destructive determine the nature of our behavior. The son of a baker who is uncommonly able will rise above the levels of his fathers, but only after many generations will be ready for kingship; this is the way of nature, which took many years to breed humans from chimpanzees and even then has provided us with people of constructive and destructive inclinations in every group.

Our goal is to nurture those who are rising in quality, preserve those who are consistent across generations, and slowly remove those who have criminal or parasitic intent, because as modern society teaches us, even giving them degrees and making them rich leaders does not remove the corruption in their souls. This conflicts with both modern society and racist ideology in that we believe each population must set its own standards, and thus to have outside-bred people in that population will subject them unjustly to its rules. For this reason, we believe not only in racial separation but in separation of each race into its component ethnicities, with greater precision as possible when approaching the local level. This is a contrast to racism, which believes one race is absolutely superior to all others, and patriotism, which believes all people joined by political ideas are of one society.

Nationalists seek a civilization unified by a single leader, but ruled entirely at the local level (city/town/parish) with those localities joined loosely into regional kingdoms. The leader of a nation does not command the people directly, but passes demands on to the kings, who subdivide them among localities; this way, if any leader on any level is corrupt, it becomes more quickly visible and the people are able to remove that leader without undue disruption to the political process. At the local level, no one is forced to deal with another, but they are allowed to form allegiances naturally, and local leaders can be selected by any means desired. Nationalism is the ultimate non-bureaucratic, non-standardized, non-utilitarian form of governance.

Thomas Jefferson, American Nativist NationalistAlthough we believe in the separation of ethnic groups, we do not do this from a belief that other groups are "superior" or "inferior," but from one that each population must govern itself in order to work organically. After all, culture arises when people of a similar heritage come together, and as culture determines those who rise or descend according to local standards, it breeds people who find harmony in its ideals with their own. We are thus opposed to racism because it not only corrupts a sensible concept, but turns a logical decision into a paranoiac and violent emotional one, ensuring future suffering for people of all races. As such, it is our belief that nationalism is simultaneously opposed to both racism and patriotism, which would include all races who swear allegiance to an abstract and unrealistic common political principle.

Modern society has existed for a few centuries, and during this time has destroyed more of the ancient cultures of all races than any war ever could. It has sponsored pollution, starved millions, enslaved others in boring and endless wage-obedience, caused overpopulation, made species extinct, and given wealth and power to the most corrupt, depraved and parasitic among us. It is breeding more people of that nature. It will never stop its destructive ways as like all truly destructive things, it wears a positive outlook but inwardly cares nothing for the destruction it causes or the creation it fails to achieve; its only goal is power and wealth. Nationalism is the only force today that opposes modernity.

Nationalist societies are more respectful of nature, and would reverse the wholesale pollution and desecration caused by the last five hundred years. Nationalist civilizations respect all cultures and recognize that there can be no equality between them, as each is important for its own unique adaptation to its own part of the world; culture is to be enjoyed and defended for its own sake, not for its utility as a means to some political or economic end. Nationalist cultures give greater respect to the individuals and protect the working citizen from undue economic competition, while giving to that normal person a guaranteed living and stable social existence. Nationalism opposes the concept that one world government, media and economy can define one type of ideal person, whether blonde-haired and blue-eyed or dark-haired and dark-skinned, because in each part of the world there is a different culture with different values. Nationalists do not believe in a single right way of living, and there is no center to the nationalist universe, only endless potential for diversity.

It is our belief that nationalism is entirely misunderstood, and that often, nationalists revert to racism in a defensive posture; further, enemies of nationalism like to accuse it of racism. Our goal is to achieve a nationalist world order without the petty vengefulness and emotional overdrive caused by racism and patriotism, and we ask you to consider the possibility of such a world order and how you might work to achieve it.

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Mar. 5th, 2006 @ 10:56 pm Excellent visual art by Jos A. Smith
Jos. A. Smith is a fine artist and illustrator whose work has appeared in exhibitions and many books for children and young adults. He is a Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute in New York.

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Mar. 5th, 2006 @ 07:59 pm Explication of Gnostic idealism
When people talk about perfection, they often fall into the trap of assuming a linear world: a place like the mythical Heaven where there is no bad, only good, and good of the purest sense. While as symbol that sounds appealing, when one goes through the process of plotting out life, it sounds terrible, because it would rapidly lead to repetition. If there's one right answer to every question, and every activity turns out excellently, is there any enough contrast to claim one has actually had an experience? Without danger, adventures would become tourist play; without the possibility of failure, success would have no greatness. Without death, there would be no reason to make one decision over another in life, as all experiences would be exactly equal thanks to infinite days and thus zero consequences. Screw up your life? Live another lifetime, within your lifetime. Boundaries give meaning to what lies within them, in other words.

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Mar. 2nd, 2006 @ 03:48 pm Smash Democracy!
Finding the right answer for a whole system - people, earth and culture - is difficult. Democracy sidesteps that question and functions by selecting the most popular option, promoting alongside it a social order of the same. If many (but not necessarily most) people like something, it must be good, regardless of its consequences. Suppose a product is garbage, a leader is criminal-minded, or a social group psychotic? As long as the product, person or group is popular, these questions are never raised. Democracy is insanity, and therefore we must smash democracy!

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