With over half a century of active battle behind me, I have a lot of practical cynicism.
Please note that I said PRACTICAL cynicism. There is also that very childish phenomenon I call Macho Cynicism.
Macho Cynicism is like the Mommy Professor Syndrome. The MPS is where a real rube or suburban kid, who is more a rube than any rube, comes to college with traditional values and finds a True Intellectual in the form of a professor who is The Only True Light and the True Source of Sophistication.
We used to say, “All freshmen are socialists and atheists,” not because all of them were, but because this Mommy Professor Hypnosis is so childish and laughable.
When a person keeps the Mommy Professor Syndrome on into his adult life, it is REALLY pathetic.
So Macho Cynicism is when someone decides that since all the tough old guys keep being negative about their sillier hopes. If they don’t THINK about it, they get the idea that Cynicism is a sign that one is tough and Realistic.
No one will succeed with the Mantra if he is a Macho Cynic.
But there are elements of PRACTICAL cynicism in what I have learned. One of them is that it always makes me VERY uneasy when someone says “Someone should…” or “We ought to…”
Stormfront is FULL of “Someone should” and “We ought to…”
Certainly there is nothing wrong with suggestions. But I have learned that a suggestion is a bad diversion if it is not succeeded by some word of what the writer has DONE. Most of our suggestions in BUGS are accompanied by a bit about that the suggester HAS done.
Most of the wisdom we get in GC5 comes straight out of battle experience.
You will notice a pattern in SF that I noticed long before. A person comes to Stormfront demanding that “we” Do something and expecting an imminent Revolution. Then they settle down into Macho Cynicism, The All Is Lost mode.
Every one of those ALL Is Lost types thinks he is just being mature, hard- nosed and, above all, Practical.
And the AIL crowd also has the barely concealed attitude that anyone who disagrees with them is being childish and is not Macho.
AIL is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody would advise a propaganda unit in the middle of a war to declare that anybody who thinks they have a chance is an effeminate wimp. But that is what Macho Cynicism does, in fact, demand.
My form of “cynicism” is to discourage anybody from holding back on action until “we” organize to do something or until “they” do something.
In football, if the huddle to plan the next play lasts so long it delays the game, the team is penalized. In war, if you spend all your time planning, you get penalized Big Time. Many a battle has been lost while a crucial division hesitated or just didn’t show up.
#1 by Dave on 11/19/2010 - 9:16 am
In a climate of betrayal, cynicism in our formerly white countries prevails.
That is to be expected under any tyranny.
People react to betrayal in one of three ways: First, they lose trust in themselves. This is dominant response. Others become coldly cynical but retain their moral compass. A small minority are able to rise to this. The worst are accurately cynical in their perspective but also shed moral compunction. They are the enemy that must suffer justice.
Stormfront’s “all is lost” types display a lack of trust in themselves. They are kinds that are unable to cope with the cynical reality of the street without becoming demoralized. This is the larger syndrome of denial which is the dominant response.
Our so-called society is a vile tyranny which describes it accurately. Yet most people would characterize my description as emotional and exaggerated. They are wrong, in denial and unfit for the raw reality of the world – the very place, for example, where Mantra thinking is done. Their denial is the ambient response, a puerile and flabby perspective on the raw truth of things. The corrupt dictatorships in our formerly white countries are quite advanced. The intelligent and tuned up among us perceive it quite clearly.
Tyranny revels in transparent lies. It cannot find shame. It values betrayal and ruin. It is deeply committed to destroying anything healthy and wholesome. Also, it is obsessed with bullying and force.
Need I describe the mainstream orthodoxy of Political Correctness more clearly? Need I describe the governments of our formerly white countries more clearly?
It is an environment where the kind of personality that correctly assesses the world cynically and without moral compunction thrives.
#2 by Luke A. Speirs II on 11/19/2010 - 5:38 pm
One of my all time favorite qoutes is “THINK racially and ACT locally”. It’s brilliance is its ability to imply one shut-up and do something themselves. It presupposes one can think for themselves, and something can be done. Nothing drives a proactive Aryan up the wall more than Macho Cynicism in the ranks.
The Macho Cynic misses the fact that they’re still UNDER THE INFLUENCE, under the influence of THE WEAPONS OF MASS MANIPULATION. Guilt, shame, rewards, etc, are just a few of the weapons of mass manipulation. Proactive Aryans have a few choice phrases for the Macho Cynics, “Don’t demoralize on us!” and “Get on the MANTRA’s message now!”