<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arditi: Essays]]></title><description><![CDATA[Essays publishes long-form analysis, cultural commentary, and ideological writing that explores history, society, and ideas in depth. 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Wikipedia&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia" title="Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jotR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db23035-eec9-4a38-b8bd-449cf33c4b97_529x399.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jotR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db23035-eec9-4a38-b8bd-449cf33c4b97_529x399.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jotR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db23035-eec9-4a38-b8bd-449cf33c4b97_529x399.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jotR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db23035-eec9-4a38-b8bd-449cf33c4b97_529x399.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Columbine does not fit the core empirical ratio in Sailer&#8217;s Law of Mass Shootings&#8212;it is an exception&#8212;but it exemplifies the rarer &#8220;<em>nonblack</em>&#8221; archetype of the high-profile public rampage that the law contrasts with more common incidents.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In the frantic hours after any mass shooting in America, a familiar script unfolds. Cable networks fill airtime with helicopter footage and survivor interviews. Politicians rush to microphones to blame guns, mental health, or their favorite ideological villain. And newsrooms hesitate&#8212;sometimes for days&#8212;before releasing details about the shooter&#8217;s identity, background, or motive (If they do at all).</p><p>Yet for those who track raw casualty figures&#8212;specifically the ratio of people wounded versus killed&#8212;a clearer, faster signal often emerges long before the official narrative solidifies. This signal is what writer, demographer, and social commentator Steve Sailer has formalized as Sailer&#8217;s Law of Mass Shootings. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The law is straightforward and empirically testable: In incidents involving four or more casualties (people shot, excluding the shooter), if more people are wounded than killed, the shooter or shooters are likely Black. If more are killed than wounded, the shooter is likely not Black.</p><p>Sailer first tweeted the observation in March of 2021 and has elaborated on it repeatedly on his blog, at Unz Review, and on X. It is not a &#8220;<em>law</em>&#8221; in the immutable physics sense&#8212;Sailer has called it a high-probability statistical tendency that holds roughly 80% of the time or better&#8212;but a pattern derived from thousands of incidents in the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and cross-checked against FBI crime data.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><h3>Origins: Broad Data vs. Media-Friendly Definitions</h3><p>The foundation is the GVA&#8217;s deliberately inclusive definition: any shooting with four or more people hit by gunfire, regardless of location, motive, or outcome. This captures the vast majority of American gun violence&#8212;urban gang disputes, block-party retaliations, interpersonal conflicts&#8212;rather than the narrower &#8220;<em>public rampage</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>active shooter</em>&#8221; definitions favored by outlets like Mother Jones or The Violence Project (which often require four or more deaths in a public place, excluding gang and domestic cases).</p><p>The narrower lens overrepresents high-lethality, premeditated attacks by lone actors and thus skews media coverage toward White perpetrators. The broader GVA lens reveals the full, messier picture: the weekend-after-weekend drumbeat of shootings in cities that dominate national gun-violence totals.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>Sailer&#8217;s Law emerged from years of noticing these regularities in public data. It aligns with broader FBI Uniform Crime Reports showing persistent racial disparities in homicide offending rates (Blacks, roughly 13% of the population, account for about 50% of known murder offenders in recent years). Mass-shooting subtypes simply reflect those underlying patterns differentiated by style and intent.</p><h3>Why the Ratio Predicts Race: Tactics, Motive, and Marksmanship</h3><p>The pattern is not mystical or biological determinism. It flows from observable differences in perpetrator behavior, weapons choice, and goals:</p><ul><li><p>High-wounded incidents (more injured than dead) typically involve handguns fired in chaotic, close-range, crowded settings&#8212;parties, street corners, nightclubs, or block parties. Multiple shooters are common. The objective is often intimidation, retaliation, or dominance followed by escape. Shooters &#8220;spray and pray,&#8221; prioritizing volume of fire and getaway over precision. They rarely linger to finish off the wounded because they intend to survive the encounter. Accuracy suffers from movement, panic, poor training, and cultural norms around handgun use.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p></li></ul><ul><li><p>High-killed incidents (more dead than wounded) more often feature lone, suicidal, or grievance-driven actors who have decided this is their final act. They select soft targets (schools, workplaces, churches, supermarkets), sometimes bring rifles or long guns for better accuracy and stopping power, and methodically execute victims. No escape plan means they can afford to stay and ensure lethality.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p></li></ul><p>Corollaries sharpen the predictive power:</p><ul><li><p>Saturday-night or weekend shootings with high wounded counts are overwhelmingly Black-on-Black.</p></li><li><p>Long-gun or rifle use tilts strongly non-Black (handguns dominate high-wound events).</p></li><li><p>Delayed media identification of the shooter often correlates with the high-wounded pattern.</p></li></ul><p>These are tendencies, not absolutes. Domestic familicides, certain atypical cases, and rare exceptions exist. But the hit rate is high enough to be genuinely useful for early pattern recognition.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://third-reich-books.com/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg" width="406" height="523.6730769230769" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1878,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:406,&quot;bytes&quot;:3867946,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://third-reich-books.com/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/195485930?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtyN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F237cb8c9-d43b-4708-b0c8-ae3b83973d29.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Arditi is sponsored by Third Reich Books.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>Real-World Tests: From Kansas City to Chicago Weekends</h3><p>The law has been repeatedly vindicated in high-profile cases:</p><ul><li><p>Kansas City Super Bowl Parade shooting (February 2024): One killed, roughly 22 wounded. The lopsided wounded ratio immediately suggested Black teenage perpetrators in a dispute. Official confirmation followed.</p></li><li><p>Birmingham, Alabama group shooting (2024): Multiple shooters, high wounded count in a crowded urban setting&#8212;classic alignment with Black-on-Black patterns.</p></li><li><p>Chicago and other major cities on weekends: Routine reports of 10&#8211;30 shot with single-digit fatalities per event overwhelmingly match Black gang or interpersonal violence.</p></li></ul><p>Conversely, the high-profile &#8220;<em>rampage</em>&#8221; shootings that dominate national headlines&#8212;Parkland, Uvalde, Las Vegas (pre-2017 data), many workplace or school attacks&#8212;feature more deaths than wounded and non-Black (usually White) lone male shooters. The 2020 Kenosha unrest shooting provided an interesting test case: casualty ratios and context pointed away from the high-wound Black-shooter prediction, and the shooter (Kyle Rittenhouse) was White.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p><p>Recent years show the pattern persisting. While overall mass shootings (GVA definition) declined in 2025 to around 408 incidents (358 killed, 1,843+ injured), the high-wound urban subset continued to reflect the same demographic regularities.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a></p><h3>Data Context: Two Americas of Gun Violence</h3><p>Narrow &#8220;<em>mass public shooting</em>&#8221; databases (1966&#8211;present) show White perpetrators as the plurality or majority because they capture the dramatic, high-body-count events. Broader GVA data&#8212;hundreds of incidents annually&#8212;show the opposite skew for wounding-heavy events. This is not contradictory; it is diagnostic. America has two overlapping but distinct gun-violence problems: impulsive, low-accuracy urban conflicts (disproportionately Black) and rare, high-lethality premeditated attacks (disproportionately non-Black).<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a></p><p>Critics sometimes object that discussing these patterns is &#8220;<em>racist</em>.&#8221; But the data come from public police reports, coroners, and nonpartisan archives. Ignoring them does not make them disappear; it merely cedes explanatory power to ideology over evidence.</p><h3>Limitations, Exceptions, and Honest Caveats</h3><p>No statistical tendency is perfect. Domestic violence mass killings can produce high death counts regardless of race. Some incidents involve mixed or unclear perpetrators. Poor marksmanship in chaotic environments occasionally produces anomalies. Sailer himself emphasizes the law is a useful heuristic, not gospel. Gang-related shootings (excluded from some &#8220;<em>active shooter</em>&#8221; studies) drive much of the high-wound total and are heavily concentrated in specific urban subcultures.</p><h3>Why the Pattern Is So Often Ignored</h3><p>Media incentives reward narratives that fit preconceived stories: &#8220;<em>assault weapons</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>White supremacy</em>,&#8221; or &#8220;<em>mental health</em>.&#8221; High-wound urban shootings&#8212;far more numerous&#8212;receive local coverage at best and vanish from national conversation. The result is a distorted public understanding: people vastly overestimate the share of mass violence committed by White supremacists or &#8220;<em>assault rifle</em>&#8221; wielders while underestimating everyday interpersonal gun crime.</p><h3>Implications: Pattern Recognition as a Tool, Not a Weapon</h3><p>Sailer&#8217;s Law does not &#8220;<em>blame</em>&#8221; any race in a moral sense. It simply notices regularities produced by culture, age, family structure, impulsivity, weapon choice, and intent. Black Americans are not monolithic; the pattern is driven by a subset of young males in high-crime urban environments with elevated homicide rates. Most Black Americans are law-abiding, and most gun violence victims are Black. The same data-driven honesty applies to White overrepresentation in certain premeditated rampages. For policymakers, the law suggests different prevention strategies for different problems: focused deterrence and hot-spot policing for urban wounding sprees; threat assessment and mental-health intervention for suicidal lone actors. Blanket gun-control measures that ignore these distinctions have repeatedly failed to address the bulk of the carnage. Steve Sailer has spent decades cataloging such patterns through public data, often at significant personal and professional cost. His approach&#8212;dry, statistical, relentlessly empirical&#8212;is a corrective to both denialism and hysteria. In a nation awash in guns and cultural fragmentation, patterns like Sailer&#8217;s Law are worth noticing precisely because they describe reality before ideology can obscure it. Mass shootings will not disappear tomorrow. But understanding why certain incidents look the way they do&#8212;long before the shooter&#8217;s name is released&#8212;helps cut through the noise. In an age of information overload, empirical regularities remain one of the most reliable guides we have.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="http://thenewway.net" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bPzN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfa1dc93-8e87-4639-a9b9-14afdb25949d_1545x2000.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bPzN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfa1dc93-8e87-4639-a9b9-14afdb25949d_1545x2000.png 848w, 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class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/">GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-corollary-to-sailers-law-of-mass?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web">The Corollary to Sailer&#8217;s Law of Mass Shootings | Steve Sailer</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.takimag.com/article/triggered/">Triggered</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.takimag.com/article/triggered/"> | Steve Sailer | Taki&#8217;s Magazine</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.unz.com/isteve/sailers-law-of-mass-shootings-in-kenosha/">Sailer&#8217;s Law of Mass Shootings Tested in Kenosha</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.unz.com/isteve/sailers-law-of-mass-shootings-in-kenosha/"> | Steve Sailer | The Unz Review</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data-shooting-stats-gun-violence-america/">Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2025</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data-shooting-stats-gun-violence-america/"> | Chip Brownlee | The Trace</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em><strong><a href="https://ammo.com/research/mass-shootings-by-shooters-race">Mass Shooters by Race: Demographics of Assailants 1966-2024</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://ammo.com/research/mass-shootings-by-shooters-race"> | Cassandra McBride | Ammo.com</a></strong></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Samson Option: Israel’s Unspoken Doctrine of Last Resort]]></title><description><![CDATA[How nuclear ambiguity, second-strike capability, and strategic culture point to a credible existential deterrent.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/samson-option-israel-nuclear-doctrine-deterrent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/samson-option-israel-nuclear-doctrine-deterrent</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ardito]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195486071/7efb2d793887d1f2e13121aaa458a7d7.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1991, Seymour Hersh, a jew, advanced the claim in his book, <em>The Samson Option</em>: that Israel possessed not only nuclear weapons, but an implicit doctrine of massive retaliatory use in the face of existential defeat.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>Although never officially acknowledged, the &#8220;<em>Samson Option</em>&#8221;&#8212;named after the biblical figure Samson&#8212;has endured in strategic discourse. Increasingly, it is treated not merely as metaphor, but as a plausible extrapolation from Israel&#8217;s capabilities, posture, and strategic culture.</p><p>While the Samson Option is not formally declared, the convergence of material evidence, doctrinal behavior, and historical context lends it substantial credibility as a real contingency framework.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>From Metaphor to Strategic Inference</h3><p>Hersh&#8217;s original formulation was considered controversial at the time, but it did not emerge in a vacuum. By the late 20th-century, mounting evidence suggested that Israel had developed a sophisticated nuclear arsenal centered around facilities such as the Negev Nuclear Research Center.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>Subsequent scholarship by Avner Cohen, another jew, confirmed that Israel had pursued nuclear capability deliberately and systematically, even while maintaining official silence.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>Crucially, the absence of explicit doctrine does not imply the absence of strategy. As Cohen argues, Israel&#8217;s nuclear posture is defined by deliberate ambiguity paired with implicit signaling.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> Within such a framework, extreme contingencies are unlikely to be codified publicly, but they may still exist as understood strategic endpoints.</p><h3>Material Capability and the Logic of Use</h3><p>The strongest evidence supporting the plausibility of the Samson Option lies not in rhetoric, but in capability.</p><p>Analysts such as Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris have documented that Israel maintains a diversified nuclear arsenal, including:</p><ul><li><p>Land-based ballistic missiles</p></li><li><p>Air-delivered nuclear systems</p></li><li><p>Sea-based deterrence platforms</p></li></ul><p>This triad-like structure strongly implies an emphasis on second-strike capability&#8212;the ability to retaliate after absorbing a catastrophic attack.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p><p>As Joseph Cirincione notes, second-strike capability is inherently tied to doctrines of assured retaliation, not limited warfighting.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> States do not invest in survivable nuclear forces merely for symbolic purposes; they do so to guarantee that retaliation remains possible under worst-case conditions.</p><p>In this light, the Samson Option appears far less speculative. It becomes the logical extreme of an already established deterrent structure.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg" width="564" height="727.467032967033" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1878,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:564,&quot;bytes&quot;:3867946,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/195486071?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J1r0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb54bbb2-b46c-4576-9ea7-8c9ca0a1fc3e.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Sponsored by Third Reich Books.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>Strategic Culture and Existential Risk</h3><p>Israel&#8217;s strategic environment further reinforces this interpretation. Since its founding, the state has gotten itself into repeated conflicts widely claimed as &#8220;<em>existential threats</em>.&#8221;</p><p>Cohen and other scholars emphasize that Israeli nuclear policy cannot be understood apart from this context.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> The core principle is not escalation dominance, but survival under conditions of extreme vulnerability caused by their own superiority complex and pride. </p><p>This context gives the Samson Option a distinct strategic logic:</p><ul><li><p>If defeat risks national destruction,</p></li><li><p>and if nuclear capability exists,</p></li><li><p>then a last-resort retaliatory doctrine becomes not only plausible, but rational.</p></li></ul><p>The invocation of the biblical figure Samson is therefore more than symbolic. It encodes a strategic commitment to avoiding annihilation at any cost, even if that cost includes catastrophic escalation. Essentially, &#8220;<em>If I can&#8217;t win, nobody does</em>.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg" width="386" height="486.36" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:315,&quot;width&quot;:250,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:386,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0LNt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F180b3c9c-d7d1-4060-a931-30c2d849893f_250x315.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and &#8220;<em>bowed himself with all his migh</em>t&#8221; (Judges 16:30, KJV).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>Silence as a Signal</h3><p>One of the most important&#8212;and often misunderstood&#8212;aspects of the Samson Option is that its credibility depends on not being declared.</p><p>Israel&#8217;s policy of nuclear opacity allows it to communicate deterrent intent without specifying thresholds. This creates what might be called structured uncertainty: adversaries know the consequences could be extreme, but cannot predict when or how escalation would occur.</p><p>In such a system, the Samson Option functions as a background assumption rather than an operational plan. Its power lies precisely in the fact that it is never fully articulated.</p><h3>Counterarguments and Limits</h3><p>Skeptics argue that the Samson Option is overstated, pointing out the absence of official confirmation and the risks of escalation inherent in such a doctrine. But since we&#8217;re dealing with the Synagogue of Satan, we can assume Israel wouldn&#8217;t care about escalation. </p><p>As George H. Quester observes, the most consequential nuclear doctrines are often those that remain implicit rather than declared, precisely because ambiguity enhances deterrence.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a></p><p>Thus, the lack of formalization does not undermine the Samson Option; it may, in fact, be integral to its function.</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The Samson Option remains, in formal terms, an unofficial and unacknowledged concept. Yet the convergence of evidence&#8212;material capability, second-strike infrastructure, strategic culture, and deliberate ambiguity&#8212;suggests that it is more than a journalistic invention.</p><p>Rather, it is best understood as a credible inferred doctrine:</p><ul><li><p>Not written, but embedded</p></li><li><p>Not declared, but signaled</p></li><li><p>Not hypothetical, but structurally implied</p></li></ul><p>In the final analysis, the Samson Option persists because it reflects a fundamental reality of nuclear strategy:</p><p>When survival is at stake, deterrence does not end at proportionality. It extends to the assurance that no adversary can achieve victory through annihilation.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3-IN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e13177b-cb1d-47d2-b5ae-f3fa12cefbac_1545x2000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3-IN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e13177b-cb1d-47d2-b5ae-f3fa12cefbac_1545x2000.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3-IN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e13177b-cb1d-47d2-b5ae-f3fa12cefbac_1545x2000.png 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Seymour Hersh, <em>The Samson Option: Israel&#8217;s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy</em> (New York: Random House, 1991).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Avner Cohen, <em>Israel and the Bomb</em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>ibidem</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Avner Cohen, <em>The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel&#8217;s Bargain with the Bomb</em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, &#8220;<em>Israeli Nuclear Forces, 2022</em>,&#8221; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 78, no. 2 (2022): 113&#8211;121.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Avner Cohen, <em>The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel&#8217;s Bargain with the Bomb</em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>George H. Quester, <em>Nuclear First Strike: Consequences of a Broken Taboo </em>(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why White Christians and Pagans Cannot Coexist]]></title><description><![CDATA[No Other Gods Before Me: Scripture's Clear Warning Against Idolatry and the Pagan Revival]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/why-white-christians-and-pagans-cannot-coexist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/why-white-christians-and-pagans-cannot-coexist</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ardito]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:01:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3gJP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90d3e70e-3bc5-48e1-aefb-f392023e2839_960x1487.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism</em> by Gustave Dor&#233; (1868).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h1>Why White Christians and Pagans Cannot Coexist: No Other Gods Before Me</h1><p>White Christians and pagans cannot coexist&#8212;not authentically, not sustainably, and not without one side ultimately subordinating or erasing the other. </p><p>This isn&#8217;t about personal tolerance or secular laws papering over differences; it&#8217;s about irreconcilable claims on truth, identity, history, and the soul of European-descended (&#8220;<em>White</em>&#8221;) peoples. </p><p>From the standpoint of serious Christians and serious pagans alike, the theological, historical, and ethno-cultural fault lines make stable, equal coexistence a delusion. One worldview must yield.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2>The Biblical Foundation: God&#8217;s Jealousy and the Command Against Idolatry</h2><h3>Exodus 20 and the Second Commandments</h3><p>Exodus 20:3-6 stands as an unbreakable wall between Christianity and any form of paganism: </p><blockquote><p><em>3.) Thou shalt have no other gods beside me. </em></p><p><em>4.) Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth. </em></p><p><em>5.) Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, </em></p><p><em>6.) and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands of them, and on them that keep my commandments.</em></p></blockquote><p>This is not some flowery or poetic language. This is not a cultural suggestion, it is divine law spoken directly by God (who later revealed Himself fully in Christ) to Moses to give to His followers. </p><p>For White Christians whose ancestors (of which include mostly former pagans) built Christendom on this foundation, the command is non-negotiable. Pagan revival&#8212;whether heathenry, &#193;satr&#250;, or any reconstruction of pre-Christian European gods&#8212;directly violates it. Honoring Odin, Thor, or any ancestral deity is not &#8220;<em>cultural heritage</em>&#8221;; from Scripture&#8217;s standpoint, it is idolatry, plain and severe. </p><h3>The Punishment for Idolatry</h3><p>The punishments for the idolatry are also plain and severe. In Exodus 32, we see 3,000 idolatrous Israelites massacred by the faithful Israelites as punishment. Originally God was going to slay all of the Israelites until Moses convinced Him to spare the faithful. </p><p>Exodus 32 states:</p><blockquote><p><em>1.) And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people combined against Aaron, and said to him, &#8220;Arise and make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt&#8212;we do not know what is become of him.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>2.) And Aaron says to them, &#8220;Take off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters, and bring them to me.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>3.) And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. </em></p><p><em>4.) And he received them at their hands, and formed them with a graving tool; and he made them a molten calf, and said, &#8220;These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>5.) And Aaron having seen it build an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation saying, &#8220;To-morrow is a feast of the Lord.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>6.) And having risen early on the morrow, he offered whole burnt-offerings, and offered a peace offering; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. </em></p><p><em>7.) And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, &#8220;Go quickly, descend hence, for thy people who though broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed;</em></p><p><em>8.) they have quickly gone out of the way which thou commandedst; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, &#8216;These are thy god, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>9.) And now let me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make thee a great nation.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>10.) And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said &#8220;Wherefore, O Lord, art thou very angry with they people, whom though broughtest out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with they high arm?</em></p><p><em>11.) Take heed lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying &#8216;With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth;&#8217; cease from they wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people,</em></p><p><em>12.) remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, &#8216;I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>13.) And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve His people. </em></p><p><em>14.) And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of testimony were in his hands, tables of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without. </em></p><p><em>15.) And the tables were the work of God, and the writing of God written on the tables. </em></p><p><em>16.) And Joshua having heard the voice of people crying, says to Moses, &#8220;There is noise of war in the camp.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>17.) And Moses says, &#8220;It is not the voice of them that begin the battle, nor the voice of them that begin the cry of defeat, but the voice of them that begin the banquet of wine I do hear.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>18.) And when he drew nigh to the camp, he sees the calf and the dances; and Moses being very angry cast the two tables out of his hands, and broke them to pieces under the mountain.</em></p><p><em>19.) And having taken the calf which they made, he consumed it with fire, and ground it very small, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel to drink it.</em></p><p><em>20.) And Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought upon them a great sin?&#8221;</em></p><p><em>21.) And Aaron said to Moses, &#8220;Be not angry, my lord, for thou knowest the impetuosity of this people.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>22.) For they say to me, &#8216;Make us gods, which shall go before us for as this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>23.) And I said to them, &#8220;If anyone had golden ornaments, take them off;&#8221; and they gave them me, and I cast them into the fire, and there came out this calf. </em></p><p><em>24.) And when Moses saw that the people was scattered,&#8212;for Aaron had scattered them so as to be a rejoicing to their enemies,&#8212;</em></p><p><em>25.) then stood Moses at the gate of the camp, and said, &#8220;Who is on the Lord&#8217;s side? Let him come to me.&#8221; Then all the sons of Levi came to him.</em></p><p><em>26.) And he says to them, &#8220;Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, &#8216;Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbor, and every one him that is nearest to him.&#8217;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>27.) And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them, and there fell of the people in that day to the number of three thousand men. </em></p><div><hr></div></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg" width="525" height="358" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:358,&quot;width&quot;:525,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Exodus Chapter 32 - Truth Snitch&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Exodus Chapter 32 - Truth Snitch" title="Exodus Chapter 32 - Truth Snitch" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TtF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d79ba85-6bd4-42d8-92af-0e6cadb0871b_525x358.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Moses discovering the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>And it is written in 4 Kings 17:7-18;</p><blockquote><p><em>7.) For it came to pass that the children of Israel had transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,</em></p><p><em>8.) and walked in the statutes of the nations which the Lord cast out before the face of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel as many as did such things, </em></p><p><em>9.) and in those of the children of Israel as many as secretly practiced customs, not as they should have done, against the Lord their God:</em></p><p><em>10.) and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree. </em></p><p><em>11.) And burned incense there on all high places, as the nations did whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved images to provoke the Lord to anger. </em></p><p><em>12.) And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, &#8216;Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>13.) And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, and of every seer, saying, &#8216;Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, and all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>14.) But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers. </em></p><p><em>15.) And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly. </em></p><p><em>16.) They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves graven images, even two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. </em></p><p><em>17.) And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.</em></p><p><em>18.) And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; and there was only left the tribe of Juda quite alone.</em></p></blockquote><p>For their idolatry, the northern kingdom of Israel was exiled for their lands. </p><p>We see this again in Jeremiah 25:4-11, which states;</p><blockquote><p><em>4.) and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying, </em></p><p><em>5.) &#8220;Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and for ever.</em></p><p><em>6.) Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>7.) But ye hearkened not to me. </em></p><p><em>8.) Therefore thus saith the Lord; &#8216;Since ye believed not my words, </em></p><p><em>9.) behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach. </em></p><p><em>10.) And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle. </em></p><p><em>11.) And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.&#8217;</em></p></blockquote><p>Again we see more punishment in 2 Chronicles 36:14-25, where the Lord uses pagans to punish the unfaithful:</p><blockquote><p><em>14.) And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon. </em></p><p><em>15.) And he carried away a part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon. </em></p><p><em>16.) And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in Ganozae: and Jechonias his son reigned in his stead. </em></p><p><em>17.) Jechonias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. </em></p><p><em>18.) And at the turn of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias his father's brother king over Juda and Jerusalem. </em></p><p><em>19.) Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.</em></p><p><em>20.) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God: he was not ashamed before the prophet Jeremias, nor because of the word of the Lord; </em></p><p><em>21.) in that he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which he adjured him by God not to do: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.</em></p><p><em>22.) And all the great men of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which was in Jerusalem. </em></p><p><em>23.) And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of His prophets; rising early and sending His messengers, for He spared his people, and His sanctuary.</em></p><p><em>24.) Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and set at nought His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy. </em></p><p><em>25.) And He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of His sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: He delivered all things into their hands.</em></p></blockquote><p>God is merciful as later He brings about the life of the Persian King Cyrus the Great to free the faithful who were enslaved and destroy the Babylonians. </p><h3>What Scripture Says About Other Gods as Demons</h3><p>The New Testament removes any ambiguity on the subject. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:20:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>The old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; of Europe were never neutral powers or &#8220;<em>different aspects of the divine.</em>&#8221; Scripture identifies them as demonic entities masquerading as deities. </p><p>Deuteronomy 32:17-33 echoes the same:</p><blockquote><p><em>17.) They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh gods came in, whom their fathers knew not. </em></p><p><em>18.) Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee. </em></p><p><em>19.) And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters, </em></p><p><em>20.) And said, &#8216;I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith. </em></p><p><em>21.) They have provoked Me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have exasperated Me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. </em></p><p><em>22.) For a fire has been kindled out of My wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. </em></p><p><em>23.) I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them. </em></p><p><em>24.) They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of serpents creeping on the ground. </em></p><p><em>25.) Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.</em></p><p><em>26.) I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men. </em></p><p><em>27.) Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, &#8216;Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>28.) It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them. </em></p><p><em>29.) They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come. </em></p><p><em>30.) How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up? </em></p><p><em>31.) For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding. </em></p><p><em>32.) For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrah: their grape is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness. </em></p><p><em>33.) Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.</em></p></blockquote><p><em>&#8220;They sacrificed to devils, and not to God.&#8221; </em>Faithful Christians do not have the luxury of treating pagan &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; as harmless folklore or ancestral spirits. To do so is to partner with the very forces Scripture and the Lord warns will deceive the nations. White Christians today who flirt with pagan aesthetics or &#8220;<em>folk traditions</em>&#8221; are not reclaiming heritage&#8212;they are opening the door to spiritual deception.</p><h3>Why Syncretism Is Not an Option for Faithful Christians</h3><p>There has been a new phenomena that I have witnessed called &#8220;<em>Christo-paganism</em>.&#8221; But any attempt to blend Jesus with the old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; is not a creative middle ground; it is apostasy.</p><p>Jesus Himself declared in Matthew 6:24:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>The early Church fathers repeatedly condemned any mixing of the Gospel with pagan rites. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 states;</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God.</em>&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>While for European-descended Christians, the temptation might be the strongest because the old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; feel &#8220;<em>native</em>.&#8221; However, they are anything but. For it was God that created the universe and not the old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; which are devils.</p><p>Scripture does not make exceptions for blood or soil. Either Christ is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. Syncretism dilutes the Gospel into a harmless cultural accessory and robs believers of the power of the cross. There is no faithful coexistence here&#8212;only a slow slide into spiritual compromise.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2>The Exclusive Claims of Christ: One Way, One Truth, One Life</h2><h3>John 14:6 and the Impossibility of Serving Two Masters</h3><p>Jesus&#8217; words in John 14:6 cut to the heart of the matter: </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>This is not marketing language or one path among many. It is an absolute truth. Pagan traditions operate on reciprocity with multiple gods; Christianity demands exclusive allegiance to the Triune God. There is no theological overlap that allows both to thrive side-by-side in the same heart, the same family, or the same culture. White Christians who imagine they can honor both Christ and their ancestors&#8217; pagan deities are living in self-deception. The claims are mutually exclusive.</p><h3>The Gospel Versus Ancestral Pagan &#8220;<em>Gods</em>&#8221;</h3><p>The Gospel offers forgiveness, resurrection, and eternal life through Christ&#8217;s finished work. Pagan paths emphasize fate (wyrd), heroic honor, and this&#8212;worldly cycles&#8212;valuable virtues in their context, but powerless to save. The New Testament repeatedly warns against returning to &#8220;<em>weak and worthless elementary principles</em>.&#8221;</p><p>Galatians 4:9 states;</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>But now, after that you have known God or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements, which you desire to serve again</em>?&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>For White Christians, whose ancestors were converted to Christ over centuries, embracing pagan revival is not progress&#8212;it is regression to the very bondage Christ delivered them from. The Gospel transformed Europe; the old gods did not. Christians cannot pretend otherwise without betraying the faith once delivered to the saints.</p><p>Scripture offers no middle ground: repentance and turning to Christ alone is the only path that cancels the debt and restores relations with God.</p><p>Acts 17:29-31 states;</p><blockquote><p><em>29.) Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the graving of art, and device of man. </em></p><p><em>30.) And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men, that all should every where do penance.</em></p><p><em>31.) Because He hath appointed a day wherein He will judge the world in equity, by the man whom He hath appointed; giving faith to all, by raising Him up from the dead. </em></p></blockquote><h3>Spiritual Danger of &#8220;<em>Christo-Pagan</em>&#8221; Compromise</h3><p>Compromise always begins small: a rune tattoo &#8220;<em>for heritage</em>,&#8221; a Yule ritual &#8220;<em>for culture</em>,&#8221; a casual interest in the Eddas.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> But Scripture is clear&#8212;idolatry starts in the heart and leads to judgment.</p><p>Romans 1:21-25 states: </p><blockquote><p><em>21.) Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified Him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.</em></p><p><em>22.) For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. </em></p><p><em>23.) And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and of creeping things.</em></p><p><em>24.) Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.</em></p><p><em>25.) Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</em></p></blockquote><p>White Christians face a unique pressure in our time: secularism has hollowed out cultural Christianity, and pagan revival offers an emotionally resonant alternative rooted in &#8220;<em>blood and soil.</em>&#8221; Yet the spiritual cost is eternal. The Bible does not permit &#8220;<em>both/and</em>.&#8221; It demands &#8220;<em>Christ alone.</em>&#8221;</p><p>Blood and soil to our people is not paganism, but Christianity. As it was God that gave us our soul and created our blood. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!blKQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214a6743-9ff2-480e-bd67-6ad2e5f1f1cb.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!blKQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214a6743-9ff2-480e-bd67-6ad2e5f1f1cb.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!blKQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214a6743-9ff2-480e-bd67-6ad2e5f1f1cb.jpeg 848w, 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When Constantine and later Theodosius made Christianity the faith of the empire, pagan temples were closed, sacrifices banned, and public worship of the old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; outlawed. </p><p>Constantine&#8217;s Edict of Milan (313 AD) may have granted tolerance, but its intention was to stop the pagans from attacking the Christians within the Roman Empire, and it set the way for Christianity to steam roll the other &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221;. Because in a marketplace of free ideas, Christianity wins.</p><p>Throughout his life, Constantine ascribed his success to his conversion to Christianity and the support of the one true God.  He fought the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in the name of God, having received instructions in a dream to paint the Christian monogram (Chi-Rho, known as the sacred monogram, is formed by the conjunction of the first two Greek letters of the word Christ.) on his troops&#8217; shields. This is the account given by the Christian apologist Lactantius. A somewhat different version, offered by Eusebius, tells of a vision seen by Constantine during the campaign against Maxentius, in which the Christian sign appeared in the sky with the legend &#8220;I<em>n this sign, conquer</em>.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg" width="1456" height="933" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:933,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Chi Rho Meaning: Ancient Christian Symbol of Victory &amp; Faith&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Chi Rho Meaning: Ancient Christian Symbol of Victory &amp; Faith" title="Chi Rho Meaning: Ancient Christian Symbol of Victory &amp; Faith" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6MC-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4e90176-1185-47ca-89c4-194c46e1ca9b_2560x1640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Chi-Ro symbol appearing to St. Constantine.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Theodosius I&#8217;s edicts (380&#8211;392 AD) made it the state religion and banned pagan sacrifices, closed temples, and restricted public rites. </p><p>Urban centers saw competition and occasional riots (e.g., the destruction of the Serapeum in Alexandria in 391 AD), while rural areas retained pagan practices longer. </p><p>According to the archaeologist Alan Rowe:<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Serapeum was the last stronghold of the pagans who fortified themselves in the temple and its enclosure. The sanctuary was stormed by the Christians. The pagans were driven out, the temple was sacked, and its contents were destroyed.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Scholars describe this as &#8220;<em>conflict, competition, and coexistence</em>,&#8221; but the trajectory was clear: paganism lost legal and cultural ground. It was not mutual flourishing&#8212;it was a power shift.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wq85!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98691481-d28e-47b6-bceb-d23c84d3469d_405x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wq85!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98691481-d28e-47b6-bceb-d23c84d3469d_405x500.jpeg 424w, 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This was not cultural blending&#8212;it was replacement. The faith that built the West did so by decisively rejecting the old &#8220;<em>gods</em>,&#8221; not by accommodating them.</p><h3>Forced Conversions and the Suppression of Heathen Practices</h3><p>In Western Europe most conversions were relatively swift once kings adopted Christianity. For instance we see the conversion of Clovis of the Franks around 496-508 AD at the behest of his wife St. Clotilde.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> </p><p>Not only were they swift, but many were largely peaceful, especially in the case of St. Patrick&#8217;s conversion of Ireland to Christianity. </p><p>However, there were examples of forced conversion, which flies in the face of the usual pagan rhetoric of Christians being weak. </p><h4>The Saxon Wars</h4><p>Charlemagne&#8217;s Saxon Wars (772-802 AD) included forced baptisms, destruction of sacred sites like the Irminsul and executions for refusal. However, what is important to know here is that the Saxons struck first in January of 772 with the sacking and burning of the church of Deventer. </p><p>Charlemagne in retaliation destroyed the Irminsul near Paderborn or Eresburg and sacked several major Saxon strongholds. After that, he negotiated a peace treaty while taking hostages for peace guarantees but Saxon free tenants, led by Widukind, raided Frankish lands in the Rhine region. Armed confrontations continued unabated for years.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg" width="373" height="575.0661417322834" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:979,&quot;width&quot;:635,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:373,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;undefined&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="undefined" title="undefined" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smZE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc193431f-e0ff-404c-9a11-9cb748977853_635x979.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>The Destruction of Irminsul by Charlemagne</em> by Heinrich Leutemann (1882).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The Second Campaign started in 775 because of the pagans. The Royal Frankish Annals have this to say:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>While the king (Charlemagne) spent the winter at the villa of Quierzy, he decided to attack the treacherous and treaty-breaking tribe of the Saxons and to persist in this war until they were either defeated and forced to accept the Christian religion or be entirely exterminated.</em>"</p></blockquote><p>If the pagans weren&#8217;t going to stop attacking Christians, what other options did Charlemagne have? </p><p>He marched through Westphalia, conquering the fort of Sigiburg, and crossed Engria, where he defeated the Saxons again. In Eastphalia, he defeated them, and their leader Hessi converted to Christianity and swore an oath of fealty to Charlemagne. Years later he became a monk out of his own volition.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a></p><p>This continued until the last phase of the wars from 792-802 where Saxony was completely swallowed by the First Reich.</p><p>Einhard, the Frankish scholar, wrote circa 820 AD in his biography, <em>Vita<strong> </strong>Karoli Magni</em> (<em>Life of Charlemagne</em>):</p><blockquote><p> <strong>&#8220;</strong><em>The war that had lasted so many years was at length ended by their acceding to the terms offered by the King; which were renunciation of their national religious customs and the worship of devils, acceptance of the sacraments of the Christian faith and religion, and union with the Franks to form one people</em><strong>.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>But it was not that case that all of them were exterminated, as Charlemagne was gracious enough to allow the pagans their lives if they were to leave.</p><p>There are four separate deportations of 10,000 Saxons recorded in the Frankish sources between the years 792 and 804.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> </p><p>It should also be noted that Charlemagne was allied with the pagan Obotrites who fought the Saxons during this time as well. 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Christian conquest of the First Reich.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h4>Historical Examples of Pagans attacking Christians</h4><p>Earlier I had mentioned that Constantine the Great had to declare the Edict of Milan (312 AD) just to get the pagans to stop attacking Christians (which caused the explosion of converts to Christianity across the Roman Empire). And in the last subsection I spoke about the Saxon Wars, which were started by the pagans. </p><p>However, these aren&#8217;t the only examples of pagans initiating attacks against Christians when we are trying to co-exist together. </p><p>The Norse pagans from Scandinavia raided the monastery of Lindisfarne (Holy Island, off Northumbria, England) on June 8th, 793. This was a completely unprovoked attack where neither of the two peoples had prior history. The Vikings slaughtered monks, drowned some in the sea, enslaved others, plundered treasures, and desecrated relics. No prior Christian military action against the Norse provoked it. </p><p>Interestingly enough, Alcuin of York (c. 735 &#8211; 804), a priest and scholar, writes letters from Charlemagne&#8217;s court to Bishop Higbald of Lindisfarne and King Ethelred of Northumbria, where calls the attack unprecedented: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God&#8230; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.</em>&#8221; </p></blockquote><p>He explicitly labels the raiders &#8220;<em>pagan race</em>,&#8221; meaning that White pagans are not of our race until they convert to Christianity.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a> | <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a></p><p>Vikings followed up with repeated attacks on other Christian monasteries, towns, and kingdoms in Britain, Ireland, and Francia (e.g., sacking Noirmoutier in 799, Paris in 845). These were explicitly pagan forces targeting Christian sites. </p><p>One of the reasons why the Vikings raided Christian lands for wealth and women is because they had practiced selective female infanticide.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a></p><p>Pagan Wends (Polabian Slavs) along the Elbe River frontier conducted raids across the Limes Saxonicus into Christian Saxon and Danish territories for tribute, slaves, and plunder. Contemporary chronicler Helmold of Bosau described Wendish attacks that destroyed churches, killed Christians (especially Danes), and involved ritual sacrifice of captives to pagan gods. These &#8220;deaths and destruction&#8221; inflicted on Christians were cited as justification for the 1147 Wendish Crusade called by Pope Eugenius III.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a></p><p>Helmold, a Saxon priest on the frontier, details repeated Wendish raids across the Elbe that destroyed churches, killed Christians, and took slaves/tribute&#8212;explicitly cited as provoking the 1147 crusade. He notes pagan ritual sacrifice of captives.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a> </p><p>During the Prussian/Livonian Crusades, pagan tribes repeatedly raided Christian Polish and German settlements, burning churches and taking slaves. Polish Duke Konrad invited the Teutonic Knights specifically to stop this. Campaigns succeeded in subjugating the region and the only way to keep the local population from attacking Christians was through German settlement, forced baptisms, and military orders gaining territory.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a> | <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a> | <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a></p><h4>The Greatest Proponents of Destroying Paganism</h4><p>King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway (c. 960s - 1000) was once a Viking who raided across the British Isles and the Baltic until he landed on the Scilly Isles, Cornwall, England in 994 AD. </p><p>He had heard of a wise man (most likely Saint Lide) that lived there and desiring to test the hermit, he sent one of his men to pose as Olaf. But the hermit was not fooled. So Olaf went to see the hermit, now convinced he was a real fortune teller.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a></p><p>And the hermit told him:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Thou wilt become a renowned king, and do celebrated deeds. Many men wilt thou bring to faith and baptism, and both to thy own and others' good; and that thou mayst have no doubt of the truth of this answer, listen to these tokens. When thou comest to thy ships many of thy people will conspire against thee, and then a battle will follow in which many of thy men will fall, and thou wilt be wounded almost to death, and carried upon a shield to thy ship; yet after seven days thou shalt be well of thy wounds, and immediately thou shalt let thyself be baptized</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>After the meeting mutineers attacked Olaf. He was wounded but survived, and as a result he converted to Christianity. He was baptized in 994 AD and signed the Danegeld Treaty, promising not to raid England anymore.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a></p><p>When he returned home in 995 after the death of the pagan earl Haakon Sigurdsson, he quickly seized the throne and all of Norway pledged allegiance. </p><p>He ordered the burning or demolition of major temples, including the famous one at M&#230;re (near Trondheim) and others containing idols of Thor, Odin, and Freyr. Priests and worshippers who resisted were often killed or driven out. </p><p>Olaf summoned local earls, chieftains, and assemblies, giving them a stark choice&#8212;baptism or death by fire and sword. In the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (by the Icelandic monk Oddr Snorrason, c. 1190), he tells the Earl of Lade and his men they must convert immediately or face destruction. Many complied under duress.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-18" href="#footnote-18" target="_self">18</a></p><p>Sagas (especially Snorri Sturluson&#8217;s Heimskringla, c. 1230) record extreme acts to terrorize holdouts. One infamous example is the sorcerer and chieftain Raud the Strong: after Raud refused conversion, Olaf had a snake forced into his mouth that gnawed through his body, killing him. Olaf then seized Raud&#8217;s dragon ship and wealth. Other resisters faced mutilation (eyes gouged out, limbs chopped off), burning alive (especially those accused of sorcery), or exile.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-19" href="#footnote-19" target="_self">19</a> | <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-20" href="#footnote-20" target="_self">20</a></p><p>He sent priests and enforcers (including the notorious Thangbrand) to Iceland, the Orkney Islands, the Faroes, and Greenland. In Iceland, this pressure contributed to the Althing&#8217;s (Icelandic National Assembly) 1000 AD decision to adopt Christianity as the public religion.</p><p>Olaf continued to promote Christianity throughout his reign. He baptized the explorer Leif Ericson, who took a priest with him back to Greenland to convert the rest of his kin.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-21" href="#footnote-21" target="_self">21</a></p><p>He was defeated at the Battle of Svolder when his forces were defeated by a combined armada from Denmark, Sweden and the Jarls of Lade. Hallfre&#240;r&#8217;s memorial poem for his lord had already alluded to rumors that Olaf escaped death at Svolder. </p><p>&#193;grip af N&#243;regskonungas&#491;gum states:</p><p>&#8220;<em>But of the fall of King &#211;l&#225;fr nothing was known. It was seen that as the fighting lessened he stood, still alive, on the high-deck astern on the Long Serpent, which had thirty-two rowing places. But when Eir&#237;kr went to the stern of the ship in search of the king, a light flashed before him as though it were lightning, and when the light disappeared, the king himself was gone</em>.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-22" href="#footnote-22" target="_self">22</a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg" width="1279" height="861" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:861,&quot;width&quot;:1279,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Olaf Tryggvason's final moments, by Angus McBride. One of my favourite  paintings from the fantastic book \&quot;The Vikings\&quot;, written by Ian Heath. :  r/Norse&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Olaf Tryggvason's final moments, by Angus McBride. One of my favourite  paintings from the fantastic book &quot;The Vikings&quot;, written by Ian Heath. :  r/Norse" title="Olaf Tryggvason's final moments, by Angus McBride. One of my favourite  paintings from the fantastic book &quot;The Vikings&quot;, written by Ian Heath. :  r/Norse" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ND29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c526d1-dc70-43a3-879b-c6bfb7957809_1279x861.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Olaf Tryggvason&#8217;s final moments</em> by Angus McBride.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Ultimately Olaf&#8217;s short but effective reign laid the groundwork for St. Olaf the Holy, a distant relative of Olaf the Older to completely convert Norway to Christianity. </p><p>Like his predecessor, he was a Viking raider who converted abroad (baptized in Rouen, Normandy, in 1013). He returned in 1015, defeated rivals, and consolidated control over all of Norway by 1016.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-23" href="#footnote-23" target="_self">23</a></p><p>At a synod in Moster, Olaf and English bishop Grimkell introduced Norway&#8217;s first national Christian law code. It mandated church-building, baptism, observance of holy days, bans on pagan practices (including exposing infants to die), and restrictions on multiple marriages and slavery. This was presented as royal legislation, not just religious decree.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-24" href="#footnote-24" target="_self">24</a></p><p>Coastal regions had begun shifting earlier; the interior (Opplanda and Tr&#248;ndelag) was more stubbornly pagan and tied to fertility cults. Olaf personally led campaigns there, destroying temples, expelling or mutilating pagan leaders (eyes put out, hands/feet chopped off, executions), and installing priests. Snorri Sturluson describes him as &#8220;<em>zealous</em>&#8221; and unwilling to leave any holdout unpunished.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-25" href="#footnote-25" target="_self">25</a></p><p>In 1028 he was driven into exile by a coalition backed by Denmark&#8217;s King Cnut. He returned in 1030 and was killed at the Battle of Stiklestad fighting a largely pagan army. His death sparked immediate miracles (his body was said to remain incorrupt, and healings occurred). 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Saint Olaf of Norway, by Pius Welonsky (1893) in Sant&#8217;Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso, Rome.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Pagans viewed Christianity as a foreign cult disrupting traditional reciprocity with gods and ancestors. But the pagans that converted to Christianity understood the truth and were the most fervent warriors. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2>Pagan Revival as a Spiritual Threat to Christendom Today</h2><h3>The Rise of Modern Heathenry and Folkish Paganism</h3><p>The exploration of neopaganism began during the <em>V&#246;lkisch</em> movement from late 19th-century to the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. However, it ultimately began gaining wider popularity post Vatican II (1962-1965) after Catholic authority and dogma waned. </p><p>Modern Heathenry (also called &#193;satr&#250; or Germanic Neopaganism) is a real, organized revival movement reconstructing pre-Christian Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic polytheistic traditions. It emerged in the 1970s (e.g., Iceland&#8217;s &#193;satr&#250;arf&#233;lagi&#240; in 1972; U.S. groups like the Asatru Free Assembly).</p><p>&#8220;<em>Folkish Paganism&#8221; refers to a specific ideological strain within Heathenry that emphasizes e</em>thnic or ancestral ties&#8212;viewing the religion as inherently linked to Northern European (&#8221;Germanic&#8221;) heritage, often framed in terms of bloodline, culture, and &#8220;folk&#8221; identity. This contrasts with the more common &#8220;universalist&#8221; approach, which treats Heathenry as open to anyone regardless of ethnicity.</p><p>Since the 1990s, this strain of paganism has been gaining interest driven by cultural disillusionment, identity-seeking, social media, and a desire for rooted, nature-oriented spirituality amid secularization and shifts in mainstream Christianity. However, the scale remains small, and the movement is diverse&#8212;not uniformly &#8220;<em>folkish</em>&#8221; or a monolithic &#8220;<em>reclamation of the European soul</em>.&#8221;</p><p>The disclosed number of heathens is around 20,000 (as of 2016). But because of their decentralized and opsec minded attitudes, their total number is anyone&#8217;s guess.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-27" href="#footnote-27" target="_self">27</a></p><p>&#193;satr&#250; is the fastest-growing flavor of paganism and the largest non-Christian faith. It grew from ~21 members in 1973 to ~5,000&#8211;5,770 by the late 2010s (about 1.5% of the population), with official state recognition and new temples under construction.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-28" href="#footnote-28" target="_self">28</a> | <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-29" href="#footnote-29" target="_self">29</a></p><p>U.S. estimates for all neopagans (Wicca, Heathenry, etc.) range from 1&#8211;1.5 million (roughly 0.4&#8211;0.5% of the population), up significantly from the 1990s. UK census data shows Paganism grew 34% from 2011&#8211;2021 (to ~74,000 in England and Wales), making it one of the faster-growing religious categories relative to its size.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-30" href="#footnote-30" target="_self">30</a></p><p>In our age of identity crisis, neopagan movements&#8212;especially folkish strains emphasizing European ethnicity&#8212;are growing among White people disillusioned with liberal Christianity or secularism. While the numbers remain small, their appeal is potent because they speak directly to blood, soil, and ancestral memory. Not only that, but they are heavily present in the nationalist sphere because they need it to recruit converts. Christians must not dismiss this as harmless LARPing. It is a spiritual movement seeking to reclaim the European soul in the name of demons.</p><h3>Why Pagan Gods Are Still Viewed as Idols or Demons</h3><p>From a biblical standpoint, nothing has changed since Paul wrote to the Corinthians. The entities behind the old gods remain the same. Modern Heathenry may dress them in scholarly reconstruction and folk aesthetics, but Scripture still calls them demons. The rise of paganism is not cultural renewal&#8212;it is a resurgence of ancient spiritual powers that once held Europe in bondage.</p><p>Pagan traditions (especially reconstructionist or folkish Heathenry/&#193;satr&#250;) are polytheistic, animistic, and reciprocal: the gods are &#8220;<em>real</em>,&#8221; relational powers tied to blood, land, and ancestors. Honoring them requires offerings, not symbolic tolerance. You cannot authentically serve both without diluting one&#8212;Christians risk hellfire; pagans risk offending their gods by elevating a &#8220;<em>foreign</em>&#8221; jealous deity. </p><p>No shared metaphysics, soteriology, or ethics can bridge this. Christianity&#8217;s sin-grace-salvation vs. pagan honor-fate-reciprocity aren&#8217;t &#8220;<em>different paths</em>&#8221;; they&#8217;re opposing operating systems for reality. Coexistence here means one side pretending or the other compromising core tenets.</p><h3>The Assault on European Christian Inheritance</h3><p>Pagan revival explicitly frames Christianity as a foreign imposition that weakened the European spirit. This is not mere disagreement; it is an ideological assault on the faith that defined Europe for 1,500 years. White Christians cannot afford to treat this as a neutral &#8220;<em>marketplace of ideas</em>.&#8221; It is a direct challenge to Christendom itself.</p><p>Modern neopagan revival sees this as cultural erasure&#8212;an &#8220;<em>Abrahamic import</em>&#8221; (Levantine in origin) overwriting native European spirit. From the pagan standpoint, Christianity didn&#8217;t coexist; it conquered and rewrote the calendar, myths, and moral framework. Christians counter that pagan gods were demons anyway. Either way, the historical dynamic was dominance, not parallel thriving. Revival today reactivates the same zero-sum conflict: reclaiming &#8220;<em>stolen</em>&#8221; heritage vs. defending Christendom.</p><p>At the same time, Heathenry isn&#8217;t a unified threat or inevitable backlash. It&#8217;s fragmented, often apolitical, and coexists with (or borrows from) other spiritualities.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrj9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0f9f15c-69ed-4ee2-bc29-685a3aec4c0f_1200x945.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrj9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0f9f15c-69ed-4ee2-bc29-685a3aec4c0f_1200x945.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xrj9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0f9f15c-69ed-4ee2-bc29-685a3aec4c0f_1200x945.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">If you cover up the iconography of that demon, this would look like a typical non-denominational Christian church.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h2>The Stakes for White Christians and European Peoples</h2><h3>Universalism vs. Ancestral Loyalty</h3><p>In the context of &#8220;<em>White</em>&#8221; peoples&#8212;those of European descent seeking cultural survival amid demographic and spiritual decline&#8212;the divide sharpens. Folkish pagans (a vocal strain in Heathenry) frame their path as the ethnic European folk religion: tied to blood, ancestors, and the native gods of the North. Christianity, they argue, is universalist (&#8221;<em>all nations</em>&#8221; under one God), promoting slave morality, guilt, and out-group altruism that weakens kin loyalty and folk strength. They say it subordinates the European soul to a foreign deity, fostering the very self-effacement now eroding White demographics and heritage.</p><p>Christianity is universal in its offer of salvation, yet it has always taken root in particular peoples. The idea that Europeans must abandon their Christian inheritance to &#8220;<em>return to the gods</em>&#8221; is a false choice. True ancestral loyalty for White Christians means remaining faithful to the faith our fathers embraced, not rejecting it for alternatives.</p><p>And while the Vatican is encouraging more and more migration to replace the local European populations, it is the Orthodox Church that is trying to change the conversation. While Christians believe in a universal religion, we do not want to be replaced in our homelands.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-31" href="#footnote-31" target="_self">31</a></p><h3>Protecting Souls, Families, and Civilizational Legacy</h3><p>The eternal souls of our children, the spiritual health of our families, and the future of the West hang in the balance. Paganism offers identity without the cross; Christianity offers identity rooted in the only Savior who can deliver. There is no neutral ground.</p><p>As of now most Heathen groups were 60&#8211;70% male in their composition,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-32" href="#footnote-32" target="_self">32</a> which sends alarm bells in my head. If the false religion is so male dominated like it is reported to be, that means that they will either have to increase their efforts to recruit women or go out of their way to take them. And while in Northern and Western Europe the difference is less, in America it&#8217;s more pronounced.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-33" href="#footnote-33" target="_self">33</a></p><p>The heathen community contained a greater percentage of transgender individuals, at 2%, than is estimated to be present in the wider population.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-34" href="#footnote-34" target="_self">34</a> Similarly, a greater proportion of LGBT practitioners within Heathenry (21%) than wider society has been noted.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-35" href="#footnote-35" target="_self">35</a></p><p>In 2018, the scholar of religion Jefferson F. Calico suggested that it was likely there were between 8000 and 20,000 Heathens in the U.S.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-36" href="#footnote-36" target="_self">36</a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rk13!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1278116-69b3-4486-9b2e-b5a8dda79c7d_1280x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rk13!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1278116-69b3-4486-9b2e-b5a8dda79c7d_1280x960.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">A Heathen baby naming ceremony in British Columbia, Canada, in 2010</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>No Inner Peace Between Christ and the Old &#8220;Gods&#8221;</h3><p>Scripture, history, and current reality all testify to the same truth: these are rival covenants. One must yield lest one commits prostitution of the heart and soul.</p><p>Hosea 4:12-14 states:</p><blockquote><p><em>12.) They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God. </em></p><p><em>13.) They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery. </em></p><p><em>14.) And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.</em></p></blockquote><p>Again we see this in Ezekiel 16 and 23.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg" width="614" height="460.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:614,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church" title="Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RTef!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1ac27b-ca6a-4532-800f-c8de1ed93022_2048x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div 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Heritage matters&#8212;but never at the expense of truth. The old &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; are not our friends; they are defeated foes.</p><p>Many pagans cite a childhood interest in mythology that is given to them by pop culture depictions of the Norse religion or mythology that is read during their formative years. Often times these children don&#8217;t even read the Bible. </p><p>Others involved themselves in the religion after experiencing direct revelation through dreams, which they interpret as having been provided by the gods.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-37" href="#footnote-37" target="_self">37</a></p><p>Elder Ieronymos of Aegina said this of dreams:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>It is better for us not to believe in dreams at all, because many have gone astray on their account. There are three kinds of dreams: those from God, those from our thoughts, and those from the enemy. If they are from God and we don&#8217;t believe them, God does not take offense, because we don&#8217;t believe them out of fear, lest we be led into deception. If I should come in the night and knock on your door, and you don&#8217;t open to me because you do not recognize my voice, I am not offended. So it is with God, He is not angry when out of fear of God we don&#8217;t believe dreams. Wine and vinegar have the same appearance. From the taste you understand the difference. If the dreams are from God, they bring calm; if they are from the enemy, they bring turmoil. Beware of deceptions. Better to protect ourselves and not believe anything outside of what our Church teaches</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Every Christian, therefore, needs to be careful of dreams. Interpretation is crucial and a further understanding of its origin is imperative, if we wish to live a Christian life.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-38" href="#footnote-38" target="_self">38</a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pzAz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb51d946a-e01b-4768-8bc0-e1f902966f4c_238x320.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pzAz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb51d946a-e01b-4768-8bc0-e1f902966f4c_238x320.jpeg 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Elder Ieronymos of Aegina.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>A sensation of "<em>coming home</em>" has also been reported by many Heathens who have converted to the movement, however, such a narrative is &#8220;<em>not characteristic</em>&#8221; of most U.S. Heathens.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-39" href="#footnote-39" target="_self">39</a> Many of the American practitioners were motivated to join the movement both out of a desire to &#8220;<em>find roots&#8221; within historical European cultures and to meet a &#8220;genuine need for spiritual connections and community</em>.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-40" href="#footnote-40" target="_self">40</a></p><h3>Standing Firm in Biblical Truth</h3><p>Now is the time for faithful confession: &#8220;<em>As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord</em>&#8221; (Joshua 24:15). No other gods. No compromise. No coexistence.</p><p>45% of heathens have been raises as Christians, although 21% had previously had no religious affiliation or been atheists or agnostics.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-41" href="#footnote-41" target="_self">41</a> Typically adherents live within Western Christian majority societies, however, often state that Christianity offers them very little.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-42" href="#footnote-42" target="_self">42</a> </p><p>Although, I would argue that for far too long Christianity has offered them religious freedom and the ability to spread their false beliefs. They have used this freedom to spread a recurring commonality, they &#8220;<em>almost always formulate oppositional identities</em>&#8221; to Christianity.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-43" href="#footnote-43" target="_self">43</a></p><p>During the 1980s, many heathens in Europe had been motivated to join the religion in part by their own anti-Christian ethos, but that this attitude had become less prominent as the significance of the Christian churches had declined in Western nations.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-44" href="#footnote-44" target="_self">44</a> This correlates with the rise of homosexuality, transgenderism, and overt manipulation of White Christians by the jews. </p><p>However, Jefferson F. Calico, the author of &#8220;Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America, noted that a &#8220;<em>deep antipathy</em>&#8221; to Christianity was still &#8220;<em>quite close to the surface for many American Heathens</em>&#8221;,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-45" href="#footnote-45" target="_self">45</a> with anti-Christian sentiment often being expressed by mocking Christians.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-46" href="#footnote-46" target="_self">46</a> Examples include calling us &#8220;<em>Christ-cucks</em>&#8221;, &#8220;<em>rabbi-worshippers</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>crypto-jews</em>.&#8221;</p><h3>Holy War </h3><p>Traditionalist Christians respond that Europe became Christendom&#8212;the faith that built cathedrals, laws, and the West. Paganism is LARPing dead &#8220;<em>gods</em>&#8221; or worse, opening doors to occultism. But here&#8217;s the rub: both claim the same people and soil as &#8220;<em>theirs</em>.&#8221; Pagans say Christianity alienates Europeans from their pre-Christian essence; Christians say abandoning it dooms the West to pagan chaos or secular void. Divided spiritual loyalties fracture the ethnic/cultural unity needed for survival. You can&#8217;t have a coherent &#8220;<em>White</em>&#8221; revival movement when half worships the old gods as native and the other sees them as demons.</p><p>Coexistence would require either Christianity to abandon its exclusive claims or paganism to cease being pagan. Neither will happen. Therefore, faithful White Christians must choose&#8212;and choose Christ. </p><p>From this standpoint, &#8220;<em>coexistence</em>&#8221; is a liberal fantasy or tactical truce. Authentic adherents on either side know the truth: these are rival covenants for the European soul. White Christians and Pagans cannot truly coexist because their gods demand different futures for the same bloodline. One path must prevail if either is to remain intact.</p><p>In families, communities, or movements, this plays out as tension, conversion pressure, or schism&#8212;not peaceful pluralism. Christians are commanded to evangelize (&#8220;<em>make disciples of all nations</em>&#8221;); pagans, especially folkish ones, see their gods as calling back their people from foreign faith. Secular society delays the clash, but under stress (identity crises, collapse scenarios), the incompatibility resurfaces. History shows no long-term equilibrium when two faiths claim the same ancestral legacy&#8212;one becomes dominant, the other folk-belief at best or heresy at worst.</p><p>In the end, the question is not whether White Christians and Pagans can coexist. The question is whether we will remain faithful to the One who said, &#8220;<em>I am the Lord, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to idols</em>&#8221; (Isaiah 42:8). 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Learn more by going to thenewway.net</figcaption></figure></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda">Edda | Wikipedia</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor">Constantine I | Britannica </a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/journals/bjrl/39/2/article-p485.xml"> &#8220;</a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/journals/bjrl/39/2/article-p485.xml">A contribution to the archaeology of the Western Desert: IV. 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Patton | p. 30.</strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-saxon-wars">The Saxon Wars | Robert Sass | Aldsidu</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/guide-viking-raid-lindisfarne-what-happened-when/">Your guide to the Viking raid of Lindisfarne in AD 793 | History Extra</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/lindisfarne-priory/History/viking-raid/">The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne | English Heritage </a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp_205_221">&#8220;</a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp_205_221">Selective Female Infanticide as Partial Explanation for the Dearth of Women in Viking Age Scandinavia</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp_205_221">,&#8221; |</a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp_205_221"> In Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp_205_221"> | pp. 205-221 | Professor Nancy L. Wicker | Academia</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum (History of the Danes, c. 1200), ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen (Oxford University Press, 2015). </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (Chronicle of the Slavs, c. 1170), trans. Francis J. Tschan (Columbia University Press, 1935/1966).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Peter of Dusburg, Chronicon Terrae Prussiae (Chronicle of the Prussian Land, c. 1326). </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Henry of Livonia, Chronicon Livoniae (Chronicle of Livonia, c. 1225&#8211;1227), trans. James A. Brundage. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Nicolaus von Jeroschin, Kronike von Pruzinlant (Chronicle of Prussia, c. 1330&#8211;1341), trans. Mary Fischer (Crusade Texts in Translation, 2010).</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_zJJtvK2_KsC&amp;pg=PA272#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">David Farmer (2011). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised. 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Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism | p. 216</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-33" href="#footnote-anchor-33" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">33</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Cragle, Joshua Marcus (2017). &#8220;Contemporary Germanic/Norse Paganism and Recent Survey Data&#8221;. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. 19 (1): 77&#8211;116. p. 81</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-34" href="#footnote-anchor-34" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">34</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>ibidem</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-35" href="#footnote-anchor-35" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">35</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Cragle, Joshua Marcus (2017). &#8220;Contemporary Germanic/Norse Paganism and Recent Survey Data&#8221;. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. 19 (1): 77&#8211;116. p. 85</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-36" href="#footnote-anchor-36" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">36</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Calico, Jefferson F. (2018). Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Sheffield: Equinox. p. 16</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-37" href="#footnote-anchor-37" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">37</a><div class="footnote-content"><ul><li><p>Kaplan, Jeffrey (1996). "The Reconstruction of the &#193;satr&#250; and Odinist Traditions". In Lewis, James R. (ed.). <em>Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft</em>. New York: State University of New York. , pp. 197&#8211;198;</p></li><li><p>Strmiska, Michael F.; Sigurvinsson, Baldur A. (2005). &#8220;Asatru: Nordic Paganism in Iceland and America&#8221;. In Strmiska, Michael F. (ed.). Modern Paganism in World Cultures. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 147</p></li><li><p>Amster, Matthew H. (2015). "It's Not Easy Being Apolitical: Reconstructionism and Eclecticism in Danish Asatro". In Rountree, Kathryn (ed.). <em>Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses</em>. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. p. 49</p></li><li><p> Schnurbein, Stefanie von (2016). Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism | p. 89</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-38" href="#footnote-anchor-38" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">38</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><a href="https://catalogueofstelisabethconvent.blogspot.com/2016/12/orthodoxy-and-dreams.html">Orthodoxy and Dreams | Elder Ieronymos of Aegina | The Catalog of Good Deeds</a></strong></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-39" href="#footnote-anchor-39" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">39</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Calico, Jefferson F. (2018). Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Sheffield: Equinox. p. 30</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-40" href="#footnote-anchor-40" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">40</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Pizza, Murphy (2015). &#8220;Fire and Ice in Midvestjard: American Religion and Norse Identity in Minnesota&#8217;s Heathen Community&#8221;. In Lewis, James R.; T&#248;llefsen, Inga B&#229;rdsen (eds.). Handbook of Nordic New Religions. Leiden: Brill. p. 498</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-41" href="#footnote-anchor-41" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">41</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Cragle, Joshua Marcus (2017). &#8220;Contemporary Germanic/Norse Paganism and Recent Survey Data&#8221;. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. 19 (1): 77&#8211;116. pp. 94&#8211;95.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-42" href="#footnote-anchor-42" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">42</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Amster, Matthew H. (2015). &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Easy Being Apolitical: Reconstructionism and Eclecticism in Danish Asatro&#8221;. In Rountree, Kathryn (ed.). <em>Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses</em>. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. p. 47</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-43" href="#footnote-anchor-43" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">43</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Snook, Jennifer; Horrell, Thad; Horton, Kristen (2017). &#8220;Heathens in the United States: The Return to &#8216;Tribes&#8217; in the Construction of a Peoplehood&#8221;. In Rountree, Kathryn (ed.). Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 44</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-44" href="#footnote-anchor-44" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">44</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Schnurbein, Stefanie von (2016). Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism | p. 89.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-45" href="#footnote-anchor-45" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">45</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Calico, Jefferson F. (2018). Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Sheffield: Equinox. p. 32</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-46" href="#footnote-anchor-46" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">46</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Calico, Jefferson F. (2018). Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Sheffield: Equinox. p. 34.</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Christian Women: An Appeal From the "Far-Right"]]></title><description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t want to be a Nazi, and that&#8217;s fair.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/for-christian-women-an-appeal-from</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/for-christian-women-an-appeal-from</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Origen Adamantius]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:27:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You don&#8217;t want to be a Nazi, and that&#8217;s fair. You probably don&#8217;t like categorizing people, but that&#8217;s an inevitability of life. One you <em>yourself</em> believe in; see &#8216;those who categorize vs. those who do not&#8217;&#8212;alongside anything else which you know makes someone a bad person, like &#8216;cheater vs. faithful.&#8217;</p><p>Yet another reality is that the principle of &#8216;don&#8217;t mess with children&#8217;&#8212;when not used against acceptable targets like Donald Trump or the Catholic Church&#8212;already <em>makes</em> you a Nazi and archaic and conservative and reactionary and bigoted and [insert bad word here] and [insert bad word here] and [insert bad word here]. Combine that with how race wins over sex in the Pantheon of Victimhood and Diversity: &#8216;Muslim man &gt; underage White girl&#8217; is a favorite fetish of the United Kingdom&#8217;s governmental culture <a href="https://celina101.substack.com/p/the-betrayal-of-britains-daughters">as the grooming gangs show</a> (retrieved 4/8/2026), and succinctly explains the dubiousness of the historic Leo Frank case <a href="https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/the-shadow-of-leo-frank">here</a> (retrieved 4/10/2026):</p><blockquote><p>The real difficulty with this case is that, in order to believe the theory that Jim Conley killed Mary Phagen you must necessarily believe that a mob of 20th century working-class Georgians decided to lynch a Jewish man instead of a black man, who was essentially being handed over to them on a silver platter.</p><p><em>[&#8230;]</em></p><p>Without the taboo label of &#8220;antisemitism&#8221; this case becomes a very obvious example of a wealthy industrialist trying to exploit racial tensions to cover up his own wrongdoings.</p></blockquote><p>With all this and more in mind, you may as well give us a look.</p><div><hr></div><p>Contrary to potential expectation, the core case for the &#8216;far-right&#8217; is relatively simple. Its truncated form can be made in five points:</p><h4>#1: Are We &#8220;Conservatives?&#8221;</h4><p>Leftism is the attempt to eliminate opposing forces that curtail believers&#8217; impulses. Whether it be disagreeing people <a href="https://substack.com/@elisabethstonee/note/c-240201630">or the &#8220;risk&#8221; of pregnancy</a><a href="#footnote-1">1</a>, everything that even slightly limits &#8220;autonomy&#8221; must be eliminated; <strong>human reality itself is oppressive because we can&#8217;t just </strong><em><strong>DO </strong></em><strong>or </strong><em><strong>BE</strong></em><strong> anything we want</strong>. Leftists operate under the increasingly delusional conceit that them not getting every political concession, canonization of de-facto-religious law, and intensification of policy that they want at any given time will result in a dystopia, hence they often invoke fiction<a href="#footnote-2">2</a> like <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale</em> while accusing the same for, for instance, the Bible.</p><p>&#8220;Conservatives&#8221; change none of this, and outside of what we can speculate about any given &#8216;conservative&#8217; party, the mode in which one <em>is</em> a &#8216;conservative&#8217; in our time is something often ascribed&#8212;naturally to an extent&#8212;to us: nostalgia, particularly nostalgia for not that long ago. The nostalgic folk of our day usually have either the 1960&#8217;s, &#8216;80s, or &#8216;90s as their favorite decade, have such as their desired climate and charge in which to live, and necessarily see the way things currently are as an inexplicable development caused by a similarly unexplainable societal departure from their values. What results is an out-of-touch, one-dimensional framework of &#8216;old, cool, scoffingly-normal kid vs. uncool, clueless, pitiable new kid.&#8217; Shows or channels where hosts and audiences alike impotently gawk at &#8220;the woke&#8221; are common examples of this.</p><p>Contrastingly, we know it as Stage 3 cancer calling Stage 4 sick, not only in severity but, <em>most</em> importantly, in one clearly following the other.<a href="#footnote-3">3</a> Hence, what&#8217;s thought of as Republicans, centrists, or especially those who believe &#8216;I didn&#8217;t leave the Left, the Left left me&#8217; are each differing shades of <em><strong>liberal-conservative</strong></em>.</p><p>It&#8217;s puzzling to think that the children of absolute, upheaving cultural rebellion whose prevalence inherently enforces its own normalization and canonization against any oppositional influences or ideas <em>would not</em> continue it; out with the old, in with the new, and woe to those who invariably forget that they and theirs will get old. Yet even among the so-called &#8216;right-wing,&#8217; social media&#8217;s &#8220;conservative influencers&#8221; live in a house of lies, a fa&#231;ade of false authenticity and mysterious funding parroting the return of decades-old Republican moods, American Protestantism, and mild political-incorrectness as if it&#8217;s what George Washington crossed the Delaware for. In this, they reflect their immediate ideological ancestor: Ronald Reagan, whose legacy remains overrated due to the outstanding historical timing of his warm, humorous, stable, and principled charisma. His 1986 <em>Immigration Reform and Control Act</em> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04/128303672/a-reagan-legacy-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants">gave amnesty to over three million &#8220;undocumented&#8221; immigrants</a> (retrieved 4/10/2026) and is assuredly part of the precedent to the MORTAL immigration issues of today, and he was the first politician in American history to legalize no-fault divorce, doing so in 1969 as Governor of California.</p><p>From the above-linked National Public Radio article, quoting Peter Robinson, listed as a &#8216;former Reagan speechwriter:&#8217;</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;He was a Californian,&#8221; Robinson says. &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t live in California ... without encountering over and over and over again good, hard-working, decent people -- clearly recent arrivals from Mexico.&#8221;</p><p>That the U.S. failed to regain control of the border -- making the 1986 law&#8217;s amnesty provision an incentive for others to come to America illegally -- would have infuriated Reagan, Robinson says.</p><p>&#8220;But I think he would have felt taking those 3 million people and making them Americans was a success.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>As a whole, NPR&#8217;s article paints a picture of the &#8216;immigration issue&#8217; not being about legal vs. illegal but homicidally magical fairytale obligations to let anyone without White skin be a charity case while avoiding the only solution&#8212;closing the southern border <em><strong>completely</strong></em>&#8212;at all costs.</p><p>Turning south to north, one finds yet more examples of &#8220;racial equity&#8221; becoming systemic anti-White discrimination:</p><blockquote><p>The report itself, running 375 pages, makes it clear that the state of racial disparities in NYC is rooted in &#8220;settler colonialism,&#8221; noting that &#8220;New York City&#8217;s history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression.&#8221; The report asserts, for example, that the Lenape Native American tribe are the &#8220;rightful stewards&#8221; of New York.</p><p>It also has numerous calls to action, including mandating anti-racism training for government staff and a fresh look at &#8220;fine and fee based programs&#8221; for transportation to seek out &#8220;racial and ethnic disparities&#8221;&#8212;that is, doing even less to enforce against subway fare evaders, who are predominantly black and Hispanic and who disproportionately commit other crimes on the subway. It decries the &#8220;punitive policing policies&#8221; that further marginalized &#8220;Black and Latine communities&#8221;&#8212;the very policing measures that drove the city&#8217;s historic drop in crime under Giuliani and Bloomberg.</p><p>And it goes on in this vein for chapter after chapter. But you get the idea.</p><p>New York City is racist, and it&#8217;s your fault, whitey, so you must pay even more taxes.</p><p>But the funny thing is, if racial equity actually matters, it&#8217;s white New Yorkers who need it. Because in almost every respect, the New York City government has been exploiting its white citizens&#8212;without interruption&#8212;for decades. This explains in no small part why millions of them have fled the city since 1950, even as the NYC population has grown by around a million.</p></blockquote><p>- Jeremy Carl. <em><a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/we-need-racial-equity-in-new-york-city-for-white-people/">We Need Racial Equity in New York City&#8212;for White People</a></em>. Retrieved 4/10/2026.</p><p>Contrast this with myths and alarmism over how Christianity or some other approved target is magically still &#8220;dominant&#8221;/&#8220;common&#8221; in &#8220;society,&#8221; when it&#8217;s common to see antitraditional &#8220;lifestyle choices&#8221; literally be treated as the default, as with <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/fertility/art-20047584">this article from Mayo Clinic</a> (retrieved 4/4/2026):</p><blockquote><p>Sexually transmitted infections, also called STIs, such as chlamydia and gonorrhea can cause male infertility. To lower the risk of getting an STI, don&#8217;t have a lot of sexual partners and always use a condom for sex. Or stay in a relationship with only one person who doesn&#8217;t have an STI.</p></blockquote><p>Trying to reign in whorishness&#8212;impossible as the LITERAL appeal and purpose of vice is fantasy and excess&#8212;is the first and anti-normatively normal option.</p><p>But <em>you</em> are &#8220;Or.&#8221;<a href="#footnote-4">4</a></p><p>If this strain of post-World-War-2 morality is not stopped, the situation in New York will only spread further. Considering how many times racial hypocrisy has been observed among our opposition, none of this should come as a surprise to you.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png" width="597" height="378" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:378,&quot;width&quot;:597,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!65Jm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd532ba-2395-48df-86cc-43275b199529_597x378.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This is but <em>one</em> of the issues we must fix, and better yet, such is inevitable to an extent; given the now-notorious worldwide collapse in fertility, including among immigrants who come here, we&#8212;a loose conglomeration of demographics which can broadly be split between a much larger Christian side and a smaller non-Christian side&#8212;are one of the only groups in our region of the world whose survival is reasonably assured past a few generations. (If your group is at-best begrudging/lukewarm about having children, don&#8217;t expect to live very long.)</p><h4>#2: What Do We Want?</h4><p>This can be presented in a list:</p><ul><li><p>The &#8216;rediscovery&#8217; of classical culture. (Think ancient Greece and Rome.)</p><ul><li><p>Included in this are physical culture&#8212;i.e., fitness but without steroids or picking protein-infused cheesy puffs over steak&#8212;learning practical skills, learning how to defend yourself, military service is looked on fondly, etc. Parents here will tell you: It is <em>indeed</em> possible for kids to like different things than we did, it is <em>indeed</em> possible for them to play pretend as Pyrrhus of Epirus or something.</p><blockquote><p>Culture isn&#8217;t about seeing certain things, or even doing certain things; it&#8217;s about <em>becoming</em> the kind of person who does certain things.</p></blockquote><p>- . <em><a href="https://fiddlersgreene.substack.com/p/on-lifestyle-and-lindy-west">On &#8220;Lifestyle&#8221; and Lindy West</a></em>. Retrieved 4/3/2026.</p></li><li><p>Note that this also applies to women. For instance, feminism&#8217;s operative conceit of &#8216;men have their traditional expectations whenever it suits women but women magically can&#8217;t be expected to do anything they don&#8217;t immediately feel like&#8217; has thoroughly proven itself unviable; if him ogling women who aren&#8217;t you is bad, so is <em>you</em> ogling men who aren&#8217;t <em>him</em>.<br>As pretensions (the kinds of which are varied) are one of the greater sins of manhood, <em><strong>hypocrisy is the mortal sin of womanhood</strong></em>.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Understanding the facts of Christianity and its tradition. I here refer to Catholicism as the Christian Church, though others would argue for Eastern Orthodoxy, some denomination of Protestantism, or Mormonism.</p><ul><li><p>As you likely know, that&#8217;s less a <em>can</em> of worms and more a silo-full.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>White people succeeding and having families to survive the next few decades of what all signs point to being complete rot, including demographically and in terms of fertility.</p><ul><li><p>This definitionally entails the maintenance of western nations as first-world countries; Japan is only Japan because of Japanese people, and so it is with White countries. The most immediate measure to take towards this necessity is remigration of the majority of non-White immigrants, which will, among other things, SIGNIFICANTLY decrease the amount of danger in cities and <a href="https://www.katjanouch.se/p/guest-contributor-evelina-hahne-being">crimes committed against women and children</a> (retrieved 4/8/2026).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N7nK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba4e882-fb9d-42d6-93ab-1b95de24b57d_687x806.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N7nK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ba4e882-fb9d-42d6-93ab-1b95de24b57d_687x806.png 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Screenshot taken 4/10/2026.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png" width="589" height="646" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:646,&quot;width&quot;:589,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFbf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73fe6b39-cfe2-4b76-80ef-bbdb6df8b4d4_589x646.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Reagan&#8217;s optimism at its logical extreme.</figcaption></figure></div></li></ul></li></ul><h4>#3: Progressivism</h4><p>With those we oppose, known by many names and having many slightly different individual doctrines between them, all you have to do to disprove them is prove that their dogma doesn&#8217;t monopolize all of reality. To prove that anything is debatable, that none of their laity can&#8217;t pretend to be &#8220;above politics&#8221; while treating their conditioned devoutness as derived from self-evident reality&#8212;stupid young women do this all the time&#8212;or that there&#8217;s anything in the world their one-dimensional historiography can&#8217;t account for or is challenged by.</p><p>Given how the perception of reality they&#8212;however &#8216;implicitly&#8217; or unknowingly&#8212;have is &#8216;everything built up to us, ours is the measuring stick to which all past, present, and future must be measured, please don&#8217;t notice anything that would threaten our demanded consensus or norms ever,&#8217; that isn&#8217;t very difficult. gives <a href="https://decivitate.jamesjheaney.com/p/dashed-off-daily-dobbs-update-oral-92b#footnote-anchor-1-44850748">the best summary of the conceit this sort has when currently in power that I&#8217;ve ever seen</a> (retrieved 3/25/2026):</p><blockquote><p>Liberalism pretends to be morally neutral in order to win huge triumphs against traditional morality without having to actually face those arguments directly.</p></blockquote><p>Apart from lawfare or rallying around whichever thing is currently trending, the mere <em>existence</em> of genuine opposition is a kind of wound, defeat, and when the motivation to act is at its highest, even a crime. Hence those infamous indignation overdoses (meltdowns, freak-outs, &#8216;triggered&#8217;) which have made the rounds among anti-progressive social media for over a decade. Hence their incapability to square the phenomenon of someone living this way, or to maintain any degree of impulse-control around it; the best they can do is &#8216;well to each their own, I guess&#8217; or &#8216;well they&#8217;re just &#8216;religious.&#8217;&#8217;</p><p>A moderate example of said lack of impulse-control, <a href="https://decivitate.jamesjheaney.com/p/the-evil-that-runs-through-everything">also from James J. Heaney</a> (retrieved 3/25/2026), is as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Some months ago, a friendly acquaintance saw a casual remark I made on a politics forum about how Democrats will never win in states like West Virginia because they are anti-unborn. My acquaintance objected: &#8220;Democrats aren&#8217;t anti-unborn. We just believe medical decisions like whether or not to have an abortion are best left to be decided between a women and her doctor.&#8221;</p><p>I replied, without rancor:</p><blockquote><p>This is like saying that Roger Taney wasn&#8217;t anti-Black.<br><br>In fact, it&#8217;s <em>exactly</em> like that.<br><br>Now, I get it: you don&#8217;t think unborn people are people, and think it&#8217;s not just reasonable but necessary (for gender equality) to exclude them from legal personhood, the protections of the Constitution, and the 14th Amendment. Okay, that&#8217;s where you stand. We all know how abortion debates crash and burn in this thread, and we don&#8217;t need to have one tonight.<br><br>But declaring that you think the unborn have &#8220;no rights the [born] man is bound to respect&#8221; makes you -- and the mainstream Democratic Party -- anti-unborn. This is as plain as the fact that triangles have three sides. Please don&#8217;t pee on my leg and tell me it&#8217;s raining.</p></blockquote><p>(Roger Taney was the Supreme Court justice who authored <em>Dred Scott v. Sandford</em>.)</p><p>My acquaintance was infuriated. He demanded I apologize for my &#8220;insulting, disgusting&#8221; comparison to &#8220;a slave-owning SCOTUS justice&#8221; and contended that I had attacked the basic rules of civil discourse by drawing that parallel. He stated that there was no similarity between abortion and slavery, because of course everyone has always known that Blacks are full-fledged human persons, but nobody knows or ever <em>can</em> know whether unborn children are full-fledged human persons, in large part due to their limited cognitive abilities.</p></blockquote><p>(Yes, the &#8216;everyone has always known&#8217; about black people is blatantly wrong as made so blatantly by the world-famous &#8216;boo-hoo racism&#8217; in addition to what Haney responds with, and the same for unborn children; the justification for people in the womb due to their &#8216;limited cognitive abilities&#8217; is a FLAWLESS self-writing joke&#8212;the <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country">average IQ in Somalia is 84.</a> (retrieved 4/8/2026))</p><blockquote><p>I answered (intemperately, this time) that if he was uncomfortable being compared to Taney and the slaveholders, he should stop relying on the same logic, the same arguments, and even the same <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantive_due_process">legal theory</a></em> as the slaveholders. I said that, like the George Floyd protestors (who were on the streets at the time), and like <a href="https://www.bartleby.com/71/0507.html">the great William Lloyd Garrison</a>, I had lost patience with being called uncivil just because I said plainly that our society should stop murdering kids. I noted that, in fact, White Europeans like us had spent <em>centuries</em> pretending not to know that Blacks are full-fledged human persons. You saw it from the theological debates of the 15th century over whether indigenous people had properly human souls, to the scientific racism of the 20th century, which claimed Blacks lacked Whites&#8217; cognitive abilities.</p><p>At this point, my friendly acquaintance ended our conversation, unfriended me on social media, and never spoke to me again.</p></blockquote><p>Bring such an acquaintance any thought experiment about how many people would never exist if someone in their past lineage was aborted, one branch cut off and with it multiple more. Bring them any appeal about how many husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, friends, and family are <em>all <strong>missing</strong></em>, with no grave, no name, and no mourning. In doing so, you will find not only why we so often dehumanize them, but why such is increasingly hard to argue. With those who think an 18-year-old girl getting into pornography is an adult making a decision but becoming a wife and mother makes her a helpless child about to ruin her life out of insecurity-provoking and &#8220;surprise&#8221;- or &#8220;concern&#8221;-inducing ignorance, platitudes of dignity only go so far.</p><p>And for what? Just&#8230;whatever today says should win right now winning and, within that, everything just&#8230;<em>working out</em>,<em> </em>because that&#8217;s how it works when the good guy wins. <em>Duh</em>.</p><p>Even a simple fact like &#8216;being a nervous virgin is leagues better than a stupid whore&#8217; spoils things too much to be part of the &#8216;conversation.&#8217; The rhetoric of such a &#8220;conversation&#8221; is typically as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The NAXALT (Not Everything Is Like That) fallacy, which applies to everything.</p></li><li><p>&#8220;Well [insert random tribe or remote people here] doesn&#8217;t think like you, so that just means that because you want to enforce rules that I will phrase as being &#8216;just your perception&#8217; because I think that&#8217;s the syllable sequence that will make you do what I want here&#8212;THAT&#8217;S NOT JUST MY PERCEPTION, SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP&#8212;that means I should get what I want.&#8221;</p><div 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it <em>is</em>.</p><p>Case in point: Go into any devoutly left-wing friend group or organization, the Democratic Socialists of America being an example, and <em>especially</em> one with young/non-heterosexual members long enough to hear stories about their sexual tastes. &#8220;Polyamory&#8221; and the like.</p><p>What you&#8217;ll find with several and perhaps <em>most</em> of them will mark them out as a particular, profoundly shallow, perverted, man/femchild whose idea of &#8220;love&#8221; is a flagrant enabling pretension of politics-motivated whorishness, buffeted by yet more pretensions from wannabe-rebellion to wannabe-snark to seething power-trips to impulse-control-free, ego-slurping bluster of having some kind of snappy conviction or depth whenever challenged. Simple age-regression, fiction-fueled escapism, and subhumanizing consumerism, which indeed the grifters, degenerates, and performative edgelords our <em>own</em> circles live for as well.</p><p>But say you don&#8217;t see any of this and instead find a man who you want to have a relationship with. Well&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>&#8216;women&#8217;s choice&#8217; means you always have to decide where to go and what to do</p></li><li><p>modern &#8220;understanding&#8221; of &#8220;relationship dynamics&#8221; means every part of &#8220;attraction&#8221; is irreparably intellectually sterilized and considered to be at-base independent from one another</p></li><li><p>&#8216;gender equality&#8217; means you split the bill on everything while what that everything is supposed to nurture becomes politically-neurotic eggshell-walking, &#8216;openness&#8217; means anything inherently &#8220;right-wing&#8221; will be equally inherently resisted or fatally cheapened irrespective of whether that&#8217;s ever directly <em>admitted</em></p></li><li><p>&#8216;feminism&#8217; means none of your impulsively catty moments can ever be corrected, and you can&#8217;t ever be challenged or told no, while nothing can ever be explained or taught to you and none of your boundaries will ever be that tasteful degree of pushed except a fixation on porn-brained goonerism from a &#8220;man&#8221; who won&#8217;t have a <em>drop</em> of testosterone more than his given limit</p></li><li><p>and finally, any question regarding commitment or the future will blow up the entire spot because&#8212;as can be readily inferred&#8212;masturbation-with-severe-delusions-of-grandeur is the only reason any of these sad charades are &#8220;believed in&#8221; at all.</p></li></ul><p>So much for &#8220;sexual liberation.&#8221;</p><p>HOWEVER, I know that you, as a woman, are more than familiar with that side of the &#8216;gender discourse,&#8217; as well as the overall poison that it engenders.</p><p>As a man, for my money, Dave Greene&#8217;s <a href="https://substack.com/@fiddlersgreene/note/c-241467444">explanation of its current condition is the best I have ever seen</a> (retrieved 4/10/2026):</p><blockquote><p>At this stage everyone honest knows that men and women only create functional pair-bonds and families under specific moral circumstances, very different from the consent-only sexual free-for-all we have now. If our society is to survive, we need to re-moralize. There is literally nothing else interesting we need to describe about the problem at hand.</p><p>However, proposing we re-moralize seems uncool, moral language applied to sex &#8220;codes as low status&#8221;, so people are forced to just &#8220;describe&#8221; the same simple problem over and over and over again using different words, from different angles, never-coming to a conclusion.</p><p>Moreover, since everyone knows moralism is needed (even if they don&#8217;t want to provide it), each side of the gender discourse is incentivized to &#8220;describe&#8221; the problem of modern sex in language that insinuates a need for moral action from the other side. No one wants to admit action is needed and no one wants to speak in terms of morals, so frame is never conceded and what results is the most passive aggressive game of moral &#8220;hot potato&#8221; imaginable.</p></blockquote><p>&#8216;Feminists,&#8217; &#8216;incels,&#8217; &#8216;man-haters,&#8217; &#8216;misogynists,&#8217; etc. Without our Lord and His Church, it will be nothing but a hamster-wheel.</p><h4>#4: Survival vs. &#8220;Being Mean&#8221;</h4><p>Naturally, one resolves that progressive politics are all just power with a whole false reality of pretenses. Subordinates are necessarily dismissed&#8212;the &#8216;okay but we&#8217;re gonna keep doing the same thing&#8217; response to everything&#8212;while anyone who&#8217;s any kind of &#8216;threat&#8217; gets the in-person Cringe Compilation &amp; Offensive Stereotype Validation package.</p><p>Either way, nothing about the future <em>really</em> matters. Things will&#8230;just work out, because what would it mean if it <em>didn&#8217;t</em>?</p><p>If we&#8217;re not &#8220;mean,&#8221; everything gets destroyed and we all die in a demonic rape-infested bungalow mockery of what you take for granted as civilization&#8212;no matter how annoying or sad it often is&#8212;and neither you nor whatever you think you like will be treated any differently regardless of what you think about yourself or what you think you support, believe, or hope for. Red flags to this end have been pretty constantly raised for years, and one regularly finds instances where trendy post-World War 2 practices <a href="https://decivitate.jamesjheaney.com/p/the-10th-circuit-aborts-the-born">vindicate incredibly politically incorrect stereotypes</a> (retrieved 3/26/2026).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FFWO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e6634f8-2033-4cac-91a8-4eaa0d38e693_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FFWO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e6634f8-2033-4cac-91a8-4eaa0d38e693_2048x1365.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Among what&#8217;s featured on the left section is third-world immigrants having much higher rape and pedophilia rates and&#8212;as measured economically&#8212;being less than useless for the nations they migrate to.</figcaption></figure></div><h4>#5: Extremism Is A Dirty Word</h4><p>Past a pretty short line, it&#8217;s not about freedom for this or that. It&#8217;s not Republican/Democrat or right/left. It&#8217;s those who understand human nature, limitations, and needs versus those who don&#8217;t.</p><p>And before you know it, this will be nothing but a dazzlingly weird yesterday with more wreckage than one can comprehend.</p><p>So, from , this is a moderate rendition of beliefs that all of us have, free of autism, schizophrenia, or soy:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><strong><a href="https://oldgloryclub.substack.com/p/seven-hills-worth-dying-on-mildly">The Seven Hills Worth Dying On</a> (link accessed 4/10/2026)</strong></h4><ol><li><p>People groups are not interchangeable, so it&#8217;s reasonable that we should limit foreign immigration.</p></li><li><p>The presence of women can completely reshape how an organization functions, so it&#8217;s reasonable for men to exclude them sometimes.</p></li><li><p>American cities deteriorated after civil rights policies were implemented, so it&#8217;s reasonable to oppose civil rights law.</p></li><li><p>Queer culture is abnormal and is harmful to many who practice it, so it&#8217;s reasonable not to want it celebrated or normalized.</p></li><li><p>It is logical to suspect that anyone who professes loyalty to a foreign state does not want what&#8217;s best for America, so it is reasonable to seek to curtail that person&#8217;s influence.</p></li><li><p>Charity is founded on belief in the teaching of Jesus, so it&#8217;s unreasonable for unbelievers to feel entitled to charity.</p></li><li><p>It&#8217;s good that White Americans exist, so it&#8217;s reasonable to encourage them to have more kids and perpetuate White culture.</p></li></ol></div><h4>#6: Our Challenges</h4><p>We are not perfect, and if I want to appeal to you, it&#8217;s only honest for me to inform you of our flaws.</p><p>Three insufficiencies have frustrated us for years. The first is minor, and the subsequent two are major.</p><ol><li><p>We can often seem (or just <em>be</em>) caustic to people who would otherwise sympathize with us more. As ours is the necessary pro-White cause, the most common example of this is with those who are not White.</p><ol><li><p>This is where the primacy of Christianity over the far-right can come into play, including in the faith governing the latter those who otherwise would find its fractured, often belligerent personalities to be a sign that things won&#8217;t get anywhere anytime soon.</p></li></ol></li><li><p>We can flawlessly identify things that are bad and should not be, but can&#8217;t agree on what should be believed/instituted in their place.</p><ol><li><p>While at-present troubled in this, we&#8217;re better off here than everyone else. Others either lapse into nostalgia, repeat tired complaints over and over (like feminists about men), or can&#8217;t give an answer <em><strong>at all</strong></em> because none are politically correct. To say nothing of the infighting that has historically plagued Communist movements and parties.</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Most/many of us are still sufficiently demoralized to mostly not want to take any political or personally risky action.<br>Basically, like this:</p></li></ol><blockquote><p>Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that &#8216;they&#8217; would never allow it. Who were &#8216;they&#8217;? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently &#8216;they&#8217; were omnipotent.</p></blockquote><p>- George Orwell, <em><a href="https://dn720002.ca.archive.org/0/items/roadtowiganpie00orwe/roadtowiganpie00orwe.pdf">The Road to Wigan Pier</a></em>. Retrieved 4/8/2026.</p><ul><li><p>(Cont.)</p><ul><li><p>Such isn&#8217;t <em>unreasonable</em>, but for such nerves to be felt in general about anything that would imply risk or what&#8217;s often called &#8216;adventure&#8217; is indeed stunting. As has famously become the case in our time:</p></li></ul></li></ul><p>However, each of these challenges are either inevitable (like the differences between Catholics and Protestants) or will be eased as time goes on and we mature. The only way is through, and now more than ever, fully breaking from the norms of our wicked secular zeitgeist is showing itself to be the only available road.</p><p>As for you, among ebbing tides of unnatural evil, ensure that it&#8217;s <em>your</em> children who inherit the land that centuries of some of the most advanced human history in our species vouch to be our home.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://origen.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://origen.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://origen.substack.com/p/for-christian-women-an-appeal-from?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://origen.substack.com/p/for-christian-women-an-appeal-from?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/adamantius&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscription-free donations here!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/adamantius"><span>Subscription-free donations here!</span></a></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="#footnote-anchor-1">1</a></p><p>Link to Elisabeth Stone&#8217;s Note supplied on 4/9/2026.<br><br>In addition, to what degree any of this is intentionally encouraged or orchestrated by an outside group is unclear. Notoriously, the most commonly alleged such group are Jews of high or moderate standing.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="#footnote-anchor-2">2</a></p><p>Of course, we <em>also</em> have such fiction; see <em><a href="https://dn710103.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-camp-of-the-saints-jean-raspail_202412/The%20Camp%20Of%20The%20Saints%20-%20Jean%20Raspail.pdf">The Camp of the Saints</a> </em>by Jean Raspail and <em><a href="https://ia800903.us.archive.org/29/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.86985/2015.86985.The-Screwtape-Letters.pdf">The Screwtape Letters</a></em> by C. S. Lewis, both links retrieved 4/6/2026. The difference between ours and theirs: ours is prophetic in real-time.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="#footnote-anchor-3">3</a></p><p>Admittedly, you could use a <em>reductio ad absurdum</em> argument against the premise of the evils of a day being at least partly to blame on the one before it. In other words, the REAL point where everything went wrong was the thing BEFORE the thing where everything went wrong, and so on and so forth until the Garden of Eden. However, that the ills of today are a direct result of the dogmas and fads of prior decades is undeniable.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="#footnote-anchor-4">4</a></p><p>I&#8217;m not claiming Mayo Clinic is &#8216;woke.&#8217; This is merely an example.</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turmeric: A Palliative Care for Water Fluoridation?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Search terms: Turmeric, curcumin, fluoride, lipid peroxidation (LPO)]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/turmeric-a-palliative-care-for-water</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/turmeric-a-palliative-care-for-water</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:03:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Search terms: Turmeric, curcumin, fluoride, lipid peroxidation (LPO)</p><p>&#9679; Turmeric&#8217;s active ingredient is curcumin</p><p>&#9679; Curcumin reduces the brain damage caused by fluoride significantly</p><h3>Background</h3><p>In the last 100 years or so, water fluoridation has gone mainstream, with recommendations of 0.7 ppm (or 0.7 mg per liter) by the ADA1 . The reason for fluoridation is due to the interaction of fluoride with teeth. Enamel, the outermost layer of a tooth, is the hardest substance in the body, and is non-regenerable once lost (e.g. decay leading to a restoration at the dentist). Enamel is made of hydroxyapatite, which can demineralize into carboxy hydroxyapatite, or re-mineralize back into hydroxyapatite. Hydroxyapatite can further interact with fluoride to lose the central hydrogen atom and replace it with fluoride, making the enamel much more resistant to demineralization; this new compound is known as fluorapatite.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>So, is fluoride good for our teeth? Well, yes, but what about the entire body? Recent scrutiny, and now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) has decided to study water fluoridation and make new recommendations. As of June 3rd, 2025, one state has banned water fluoridation: Utah possibly followed by Florida.</p><p>This article isn&#8217;t about fluoride, but this is an essential point to begin our investigative research. Fluoride can and does harm the body, as it is a heavy metal. It is listed as a neurotoxin on any major publication you could find. I have written on this extensively previously. Turmeric, or the active ingredient curcumin, has been found to reduce some of the toxicity in ingestion of fluoride, as well as a myriad of other health benefits of this root.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png" width="1024" height="608" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:608,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VEf-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a99d021-1486-4ee6-b7f6-26d538048d56_1024x608.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The endocrine system uses endogenously created (in the body, that is) hormones to send signals to receptors and cause actions within the body. Sometimes noted as &#8220;<em>the regulator of regulators,</em>&#8221; the pineal gland produces melatonin through pinealocytes, which have receptors found in the brain, immune system, gonads, kidney, and the cardiovascular system. This means that melatonin has a large number of functions, and not just the one known by any middle-schooler as &#8220;<em>the sleep hormone</em>.&#8221; Melatonin is an endocrine molecule with both receptor-mediated, and non-receptor-mediated functions, one of these non-receptor-mediated functions being an antioxidant, with ease of crossing cell and nuclear membranes. Melatonin also has anti-inflammatory effects. Antioxidants typically have the same general functions, specifically listed for melatonin are: protection of lipids, proteins, and DNA from oxidative damage; that is, damage caused by molecules that would break apart structures that should not be altered. The pineal gland also produces neurosteroids from cholesterol, such as testosterone, 7&#945;-hydroxypregnenolone, and estradiol-17&#223;6.</p><p>Due to the antioxidant effects of the pineal gland through melatonin, it is being shown in new studies that melatonin also has some anti-tumoral activity, or cancer prevention activity. The brain is made primarily of lipids, and without the antioxidant enzyme catalase seen throughout the rest of the body, melatonin is a very important molecule. This is shown in how melatonin is oncostatic, slowing progression of cancer. Another study showed how rats injected with carcinogens during peak melatonin production at night had a 20% decrease in DNA damage (the primary factor in oncogenesis). All of these are cited from other sources, unavailable to the public without payment. Further, because of the anti-tumoral activity of melatonin, researchers have found that there is an increased risk of cancer in most studies of night shift workers. This is further emphasized as &#8220;<em>people exposed to light during the &#8216;biological night.</em>&#8217;&#8221; With light-induced melatonin suppression, there is an increase in estrogen production, and higher incidence of hormone-dependent cancer. Further corroborating this research, a pinealectomy stimulates cancer growth in animals, as well as pineal calcification Pineal gland calcification is associated with disruption in the circadian rhythm, schizophrenia, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, symptomatic cerebral infarction, defective sense of direction, and pediatric primary brain tumors.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Support White Authors and Small Businesses</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOAl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4f6e905-c6c3-401c-8ff7-16eaf1935cc2_5175x6675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Based on various studies, it has been found that fluoride is found in a five-times higher concentration in humans than animals, with this attributed to fluoride being a water pollutant. Fluoride attracts calcium, causing a more rapid calcification of the pineal gland. The researchers thus conclude that a decrease in environmental fluoride will be helpful in delaying pineal gland calcification. In one mouse study, hidden by a paywall, it was found that mice with no fluoride in their diet saw a 96% increase in supporting cells, and 73% increase in pinealocytes compared to control animals (1.2 ppm sodium fluoride (NaF)) after four weeks. They showed that if a rat who had decalcification of their pineal gland and reversed their diet to 1.2 ppm NaF drinking water, had no difference in their pinealocytes than the control group. </p><p>The active ingredient in turmeric is curcumin, and has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. In an experiment by Sharma et al., they had three variable groups of mice: 120 ppm F in water; 120 ppm F in water with 30 mg/kg BW curcumin; and a curcumin only group (groups II, III, IV). For reference, a 100 kg human would need about 3g of curcumin per day to equal this amount, while turmeric contains about 3-8% curcumin, this would mean you&#8217;d need to consume 37.5 - 100 g of turmeric per day. The suggestion for dosing in this same article is only 0.5-2g per day. Group II, the high F group without curcumin, experienced high levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), a product of peroxidation, in the mice brains. We can conclude from this alone that there is higher degradation of the brain matter in brains affected by fluoride, without any antioxidants to balance the free radicals produced; the researchers specifically associating membrane phospholipid peroxidation with the increase in MDA. Group III, with high F and curcumin, had a significant decrease in MDA presence. The mode of MDA production occurs as such: oxygen free radicals produced, free radicals attach and exchange electrons to cause lipid peroxidation (LPO), and thus degradation of body cells. The introduction of the antioxidant curcumin decreased the LPO occurring by soaking up the oxygen free radicals.</p><p>This study used over 100 times the ADA recommended amount of fluoride in the drinking water of mice, but the trial lasted only 30 days before the mice were harvested. With this in mind, we can likely reduce our 37.5-100g of turmeric per day to just around 1g maximum to decrease the LPO rates in human brains. Other neurodegenerative effects of the high fluoride group II were: 5% of cells were reduced in size, with some cells containing shrunken nuclei in key areas of the hippocampus (organ used for memory); and decreased total number of neuronal cells. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yLah!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffac07d5e-4a64-49ac-ae58-eec6486dd393_740x554.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yLah!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffac07d5e-4a64-49ac-ae58-eec6486dd393_740x554.jpeg 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In figure 1, all groups are placed on a chart to show the MDA concentration in &#181;g/moles of protein, showing 4 &#181;g/mole in group II, and 3 &#181;g/mole in group III, a 25% reduction in MDA concentration. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sGIt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc363d55c-c26c-48c5-9d26-5b4fc87a92ee_741x465.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sGIt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc363d55c-c26c-48c5-9d26-5b4fc87a92ee_741x465.jpeg 424w, 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These regions are named: cornuammonis 1-4 (CA1-4) and the dentate gyrus (DG).</p><p>Now that the biggest question on my mind is out of the way, what else is turmeric, or curcumin, good for? We know that turmeric is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, but it is also an antimutagenic, antimicrobial, anticancer, hepatoprotective, cardioprotective, hypoglycemic, and antiarthritic properties. Turmeric&#8217;s anti-LPO activity protects renal cells from H2O2 induced injury. Turmeric prevents some level mutagenicity of Salmonella typhimurium strains TA 100 and TA 1535, as well as 2-acetamidofluorene. Certain histamine-producing bacteria were found to have their growth inhibited by a 5% garlic and turmeric extract, albeit less than clove or cinnamon. Turmeric was found to be the most effective at killing Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria found in about 50% of all adults on Earth, which is known for causing stomach ulcers and cancer.</p><p>An active ingredient found in turmeric, Ar-turmerone, was found to induce apoptosis of cancer cells such as human leukemia Molt 4B and HL-60 cells. The route of apoptosis is through activation of the Bax and p53 proteins, which are both known for regulating cell death. Turmeric extract has also been found to repress the production and secretion of hepatitis B surface antigens, which in theory would reduce the infectivity as the hepatitis B virus would have fewer binding antigens. Some of the cancers seen to have been impacted by turmeric are: breast, oral, and stomach cancers. Beside the aforementioned mutation inhibition and apoptosis induction, there have been studies showing turmeric&#8217;s ability to detoxify carcinogens and decrease cell proliferation. Turmeric has been shown to specifically decrease blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetic rats. 1.5g of turmeric administered daily to smokers and non-smokers was found to reduce mutagens excreted from the body in the smoking patients, but not the non-smokers, showing the chemoprevention properties of turmeric.</p><p>Turmeric has wound-healing abilities, in that it increases healing of ulcers in animal trials, and stimulates mucin secretion to protect from stomach ulcer production occurring at all. Patients with irritable bowel syndrome were given tablets of turmeric extract for eight weeks, and it showed a significant decrease in prevalence, and a decrease in the abdominal pain/discomfort score. Another human trial showed that turmeric was useful in healing peptic ulcers. The list continues on in this meta-analysis, from decreasing the amount of influenza virions, to inhibition of Trichophyton dermatophytosis.</p><h3>Uptake</h3><p>How can we get turmeric? I find mixing turmeric in orange juice, and have heard of friends who put it in their eggs. But, how are we going to consume up to a gram a day of this very strong-tasting ingredient? While the rat study did not use any absorption enhancers of turmeric, some studies have found that bioavailability of curcumin is increased when you include piperine, a bioactive compound found in black pepper. Next time you&#8217;re making an antioxidant drink, eggs, or just having orange juice, add some turmeric and black pepper, it&#8217;ll spice up your life, and have vast health benefits!</p><div><hr></div><h3>Sources Cited</h3><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.mouthhealthy.org/all-topics-a-z/fluoridation.">Fluoride in Water | MouthHealthy</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/g-s1-59452/hhs-rfk-fluoride-drinking-water-epa">Alana Wise | (April 10, 2025) | HHS will review guidance on the addition of fluoride to drinking water | npr.org </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmggp2y99o">Nadine Yosuf | (March 29, 2025) | Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water | British Broadcasting Company </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/florida-fluoride-water-ban#:~:text=Florida%20is%20poised%20to%20become,all%20ages%20from%20developing%20cavitie%20s..">Jessica Glenza | (April 30, 2025) | Florida to become second state to ban fluoride in water, alarming experts | The Guardian </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK550972/#">Josephine Arendt, &amp; Anna Aulinas | (October 30, 2022) | Physiology of the pineal gland and melatonin | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology Information | Endotext </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6017004/">Dun Xian Tan, Bing Xu, Xinjia Zhou, &amp; Russel J. Reiter | (January 31, 2018) | Pineal calcification, melatonin production, aging, associated health consequences and rejuvenation of the pineal gland | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology | Molecules | PMID: 29385085</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31713773/">Aaron Mrvelj &amp; Mark D. Womble | (November 12, 2019) | Fluoride-free diet stimulates pineal growth in aged male rats | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology | PMID: 31713773 </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969660/">Chhavi Sharma, Pooja Suhalka, Piyu Sukhwal, Neha Jaiswal, &amp; Maheep Bhatnagar | (January 2014) | Curcumin attenuates neurotoxicity induced by fluoride: an in vivo evidence | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology | Pharmacognosy Magazine | PMID: 24696547</a> </p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/turmeric-dosage">Makayla Meixner | Med review by Kim Rose-Francis | (May 12, 2025) | Turmeric dosage: how much should you take per day? | Healthline </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354326193_How_to_Decalcify_the_Pineal_Gland">Brian J. Rose | (September 2021) | How to decalcify the pineal gland | ResearchGate </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92752/">Sahdeo Prasad &amp; Bharat B. Aggarwal. (Copyright 2011) | Herbal medicine: biomolecular and clinical aspects; Chapter 13: Turmeric, the golden spice | Second Edition | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology | PMID: 22593922 </a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3634921/">Kritika Kesarwani &amp; Rajiv Gupta | (April 2013) | Bioavailability enhancers of herbal origin: an overview | National Institute for Health, Nation Center for Biotechnology | PMID: 23620848 </a></p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Upcoming Book Releases</strong></h3><h4><em><strong>There IS a Jewish World Plot, JEWS SAY SO!</strong></em></h4><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22dd9380-94d5-45b5-8a46-1a4149b22d17_853x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03a640d2-2c97-46a5-832e-91c50caf1210_853x1280.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;First drafts of the new cover.&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2834a51b-4f3e-4876-92da-539c3badd272_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Fifth Column Library has been working on William Dudley Pelley&#8217;s &#8220;<em>There IS a Jewish World Plot, JEWS SAY SO!</em>&#8221; for the past month and it is almost ready to be released. We have reformatted the pamphlet into a a 6&#8221;x9&#8221; book with 46 pages of endnotes to add clarity to what Pelley is talking about. This book also features a foreword by Imperator Ardito, a new introduction by <strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/users/74639090-vance-pollock?utm_source=mentions">Vance Pollock</a> </strong>and modernized cover art.</p><p>Pelley&#8217;s book will be released in both hardcover and paperback with a free PDF version.</p><h4><strong>The Great War on White Slavery</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HEUH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc31df3a7-dd86-4cb4-a41d-983db93c36ad_960x1280.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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This new edition will feature endnotes, a new introduction and foreword with updated cover art.</p><p>The coffee table book will only be released in hardcover, but it will include a free PDF for everyone to enjoy.</p><p>Thank you for your continued support.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectator Politics ]]></title><description><![CDATA[TRIBE UP WHITE MAN!]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/spectator-politics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/spectator-politics</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sensitive Young Fascist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:03:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pIo1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72fa3fca-bb43-425a-9549-fe7956339d2d_807x449.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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ANUS MOLESTER 1488? (that&#8217;s my mutual!!)</em>&#8221;</p><p>All while the invasion of our country continues at a clip.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free our paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>And don&#8217;t get me started on voting. What a scam! It&#8217;s the same trick as free speech zones. &#8220;Please confine your political activity to an annual ritual and in the rest of your time, be a good little goyslave.&#8221; And then they ignore your vote anyway.</p><p>The clean cut, inoffensive conservative votes once a year while the blue haired transgender freak teacher that watches his kids while he&#8217;s at work is doing politics 24/7.</p><p>Is it any wonder the blue haired freaks are winning? They are doing 100x, if not 1,000x the amount of activism.</p><p>Many of them get paid to do it full time, under cover names like &#8220;<em>charity</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>education</em>&#8221;, &#8220;<em>human resources</em>&#8221; and so on.</p><p>But more than that, they&#8217;ve made it a lifestyle. When a transgender walks down the street and normal people are forced to behold their hideousness, that&#8217;s activism. The normal person gets a little more demoralized. The world is a little uglier, a little more Bolshevik.</p><p>The clean cut conservative thinks he does politics when appropriate, in reality he has abdicated it entirely. The consequence is that he is governed by his inferiors.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Support White Authors and Small Businesses</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOAl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4f6e905-c6c3-401c-8ff7-16eaf1935cc2_5175x6675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOAl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4f6e905-c6c3-401c-8ff7-16eaf1935cc2_5175x6675.png 424w, 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right.</em>&#8221;</p><p>Commentating feels like all we can do sometimes.</p><p>We&#8217;re focused on what other men are doing because we sense that our power has been stripped away from us long ago.</p><p>Seligman called this learned helplessness, and it&#8217;s a characteristic of the domestic. Take a lab-raised mouse and plop it in a tub of water w, and it will not tread for very long before succumbing to gravity and drowning.</p><p>A wild mouse, on the other hand, knows that only he can save himself. He struggles as hard as he can. It&#8217;s many hours before he goes under.</p><p>Repeat the experiment with the lab-mouse, saving it from the water each time it collapses from exhaustion, and a switch flips&#8212;now it struggles as long as the wild mouse did before it succumbs.</p><p>We Aryans have lived our whole lives in Jewish domestication. It is no surprise we are so passive. But nor is it inevitable. There are psychological switches that can be triggered in the masses.</p><p>When the domestic pig goes into the wild, it grows tusks and thick fur.</p><p>The wild phenotype can emerge.</p><p>Hitler took a nation of people oppressed under the harshest Jewish domination and turned them into a nation of Germanic Berserkers.</p><h3>What can we do?</h3><p>We spectate because we&#8217;re standing still.</p><p>We need to start moving. Join the Movement. Build Motion.</p><p>Any kind of movement works. A shark dies if it stops swimming, but if it swims in the wrong direction it remains ALIVE.</p><p>We need to get active.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!azc-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33001e2b-b11d-474e-abab-6c10e515a37d_500x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!azc-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33001e2b-b11d-474e-abab-6c10e515a37d_500x500.png 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="http://www.thenewway.net">The only way is the New Way.</a></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The main problem with online-commentary-as-activism is that it only reaches people who sign up to receive the message.</p><p>We need to reach the masses. We need to reach those who didn&#8217;t sign up for it.</p><p>We can&#8217;t ask permission.</p><p>It has to be all encompassing.</p><p>We need to assert ourselves. Every victory of the left has been achieved through the will to power.</p><p>We didn&#8217;t want trans activists teaching our kids. We don&#8217;t want to see blue haired fags on the street. We don&#8217;t want all these ethnics in our country.</p><p>They RAPED us and played the victim when we asked them to stop.</p><p>And over the years we became accustomed to the abuse.</p><p>We can only win by fighting back.</p><p>We need to <strong>NON-CONSENSUALLY</strong> insert ourselves into the awareness of others.</p><p>This can be done at small scale by anybody.</p><p>Bring up Hitler at Thanksgiving (Family gatherings are captive audiences).</p><p>Wear a totenkopf shirt to the gym. If they ask you to leave, make a scene.</p><p>Blast the Horst Wessel Lied on Speaker while riding the train.</p><h3>Gentle Harassment</h3><p>When a young man told Portnoy &#8220;<em>fuck the jews</em>&#8221; and tossed pennies in front of him, there were many who said &#8220;<em>that&#8217;s too far</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>that&#8217;s not Christian</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>that&#8217;s counterproductive</em>&#8221;. And these people are ostensibly on our side!</p><p>We want people like Portnoy to self-deport. At the very least, we want him to watch his mouth. A little bit of gentle, non-violent harassment goes a long way.</p><p>There used to be some jews who did a October 7th gathering near me. I&#8217;d usually jog by them because they were on my route. I would dive-bomb them with &#8220;<em>Go back to Israel</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Go back to Israel</em>&#8221; as I ran past. The women were usually confused and a little afraid. One time one of the men chased after me. Good times.</p><p>The point is you don&#8217;t always have to go out of your way to do this kind of thing. Sometimes the opportunities present themselves to you.</p><p>ChudTheBuilder on X is the master of gentle harassment. Just calls niggers niggers to their face. Now he&#8217;s getting in all kinds of trouble and exposing the system for its jewish intolerance of true Aryans who exercise their rights. In the end, like most who do gentle harassment, he will end up a victim. And victims garner sympathy.</p><h3>Traitors in our Midst</h3><p>Unfortunately, there are those of us who claim to be on our side that look down on this kind of activism. They&#8217;ll tell you it&#8217;s non-Christian, bad optics, and so on.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg" width="850" height="400" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:400,&quot;width&quot;:850,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;TOP 20 QUOTES BY CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU | A-Z Quotes&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="TOP 20 QUOTES BY CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU | A-Z Quotes" title="TOP 20 QUOTES BY CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU | A-Z Quotes" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jbbs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c1ffc19-6672-47c4-b4f1-bb254b338760_850x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Is it better to let them keep flooding over the border? Is a little bit of gentle harassment worse than what we want to do to them with ICE? If we can bully them into self-deportation, is that not a kindness?</p><p>Leftists dominate our streets. They&#8217;ve done so by being visible, aggressive, and intolerant. It&#8217;s essential that we contest them in this arena. Anyone can help. All that you need is the willingness to get involved. Join the fight in real life and cease to be a spectator.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9FqK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f7d5702-ae08-415b-bfbd-f25a500760dd_850x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9FqK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f7d5702-ae08-415b-bfbd-f25a500760dd_850x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9FqK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f7d5702-ae08-415b-bfbd-f25a500760dd_850x400.jpeg 848w, 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walked amongst us. The innocent are slain, and the accused are the cursed.</strong></p><p>In the 7th Truth Nuke film, flesh will burn, heads will roll, and blood will be spilled. Is Jewish ritual murder libel, or legitimate? Myth, or murder? Are these accusations the work of imagination fueled by antisemitic hatred, or the dark rites of a race consumed by eternal vengeance.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3b7e889a-baeb-4cc8-b36e-08af56fdd1f2_960x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dd1168f5-483d-41b3-a6f0-c41e5c9fb921_720x1280.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64815666-abea-4767-a332-f216561869b5_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was needed:</p><ul><li><p>The official version from Rockwell&#8217;s own party was poorly formatted.</p></li><li><p>There was a ton of missing context.</p></li><li><p>It was clearly edited to add bias or reference events that took place after Rockwell was killed.</p></li></ul><p>So of we fixed those issues.</p><p>Our new edition includes:</p><ul><li><p>Clean, readable typesetting</p></li><li><p>Restored original text</p></li><li><p>Fair historical context</p></li><li><p>An updated forward</p></li><li><p>Over 40 pages of endnotes</p></li><li><p>Brand new cover art</p></li><li><p>Hyperlinks for easy navigation (PDF only)</p></li><li><p>6&#8221;x9&#8221; Hardcover and Paperback options</p></li></ul><p class="button-wrapper" 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isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-sovereign-standard</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gnostoktonos Illustrations]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:00:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8hBy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F331ec980-29b5-4325-9036-b433cfc8c6b4_654x508.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8hBy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F331ec980-29b5-4325-9036-b433cfc8c6b4_654x508.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Unlike fiat currencies dependent on government decree and centralized banking, the GLN is grounded in both the tangible wealth of gold and the dynamic productivity of a nation&#8217;s labor force.</p><p>Every unit of currency corresponds not just to stored metal, but to the living output of a working population. In this way, the GLN embodies both permanence and motion: gold as the immutable anchor, and labor as the renewable engine of national prosperity. Drawing on Gottfried Feder&#8217;s principles, the GLN treats currency as a public utility that serves the community rather than private profit.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3><strong>National Sovereignty Through Currency</strong></h3><p>Politically, the GLN framework reasserts the nation&#8217;s right to issue and manage its currency free from foreign capital flows or speculative fiat cycles. The Gold&#8211;Labor Authority (GLA), an independent constitutional institution, administers issuance and reserves, prioritizing value preservation over artificial growth. By combining algorithmic transparency with state oversight, the GLA replaces opaque central banking decisions with a hybrid governance model, where trust arises not from secrecy but from verifiable cryptographic proof. Currency issuance is strictly tied to productive contribution, preventing exploitation through interest or parasitic capital.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;<em>If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations</em>.&#8221;</p><p>- Andrew Jackson</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdYX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3177a4c5-a4b1-44b4-8832-213cd7d59642_719x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Each note is supported by physical gold reserves, domestically stored and audited, and by a dynamic Labor&#8211;Value Index (LVI) that quantifies national productivity. Gold provides intergenerational stability, ensuring intrinsic value amid global volatility. The labor component injects adaptability, allowing the currency&#8217;s effective supply to evolve with actual economic output. When productivity rises, the labor component strengthens; when output falls, issuance tightens automatically, preventing excess liquidity or erosion of value.</p><h3>Productive vs. Parasitic Capital</h3><p>The GLN integrates Feder&#8217;s distinction between productive and unproductive capital. Productive capital&#8212;that which builds, manufactures, cultivates, and advances&#8212;is supported, while unproductive capital&#8212;that which extracts wealth without contributing&#8212;is structurally excluded. Credit exists as a public utility, issued at zero interest and repayable in production, goods, or labor, never through compounding financial obligations. Speculation and debt cycles are impossible, and currency acts as a tool for national development rather than private extraction.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWpp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb532d5bc-1fd7-4934-a71f-40bf0695074f_750x575.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWpp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb532d5bc-1fd7-4934-a71f-40bf0695074f_750x575.jpeg 424w, 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That principle is &#8216;when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to INDUCE PEOPLE [WC emphasis] (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing for, so long as he had someone&#8217;s stock of gold as a persuader to show to his customers.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individuals and to governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>Guild-Based Labor Organization</h3><p>Labor is structured into a guild-based system to ensure skill, dignity, accountability, and measurable output. Guilds covering agriculture, manufacturing, engineering, medicine, education, logistics, security, and craftsmanship serve as primary units of productive activity. Each guild maintains internal ranks &#8212; from Initiates to Guild Wardens &#8212; which determine contribution weightings in the Labor-Value Index. This guarantees that currency reflects real labor and tangible materials, not abstract economic indicators or speculative metrics.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gbhQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67ecbe2e-1d86-42aa-b8bb-2199877e14ef_750x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gbhQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67ecbe2e-1d86-42aa-b8bb-2199877e14ef_750x540.jpeg 424w, 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The blockchain serves as an incorruptible ledger of issuance, circulation, and reserve backing, while AI continuously evaluates national productivity metrics to update the LVI. 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Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:333,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The Goebbels Experiment&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Goebbels Experiment&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The Goebbels Experiment" title="The Goebbels Experiment" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fdd240ab-9bb0-462a-8c60-e87408312712_1333x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2671ec82-afc9-4896-bb05-1409b7ec9736_1333x2000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d57ce69d-0777-4c44-b558-ae8d22171f15_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was needed:</p><ul><li><p>The official version from Rockwell&#8217;s own party was poorly formatted.</p></li><li><p>There was a ton of missing context.</p></li><li><p>It was clearly edited to add bias or reference events that took place after Rockwell was killed.</p></li></ul><p>So of we fixed those issues.</p><p>Our new edition includes:</p><ul><li><p>Clean, readable typesetting</p></li><li><p>Restored original text</p></li><li><p>Fair historical context</p></li><li><p>An updated forward</p></li><li><p>Over 40 pages of endnotes</p></li><li><p>Brand new cover art</p></li><li><p>Hyperlinks for easy navigation (PDF only)</p></li><li><p>6&#8221;x9&#8221; Hardcover and Paperback options</p></li></ul><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://t.me/fifth_column_library?direct&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Order your copy today!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gMW1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2a85105-0e34-4a6d-8387-b2ef6242ccae_740x987.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gMW1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2a85105-0e34-4a6d-8387-b2ef6242ccae_740x987.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gMW1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2a85105-0e34-4a6d-8387-b2ef6242ccae_740x987.webp 424w, 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The former exudes order, rationality, and wisdom through philosophy, whereas the latter indulges in base sentiments of gluttony, sporadic action, and lust. These spirits wax and wane, diametrically opposed to one another and exist best when balanced with one another. It is within my view that these spirits have seeped into politics. Art may be looked away from and passed over, yet politics in our age of the democratic Leviathan it may not be ignored. To ignore it is to offend and admonish it for being displeasing. To not engage in either of the two spirits in politics is to make yourself an enemy of followers of both. So once everyone is subscribed to the ideas of one or the other, the ideas are debated, and one gains power. The other reacts after the effects of the policies are felt and power changes hands after a debate. And power must change hands, or else those in power will begin to split themselves from complacency into new smaller camps, thereby giving power to the other camp, regardless. Two generations pass and once both camps have held power they debate for a third time. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This time there is palpable friction stemming from the first two debates and tenures, and both spirits fail to capture the heart of the people. The populace is divided into the tribes of progress and romance, and the tribal impetus hijacks the people from the wisdom that teaches balance as the healthy solution. The people, believing that extremism is superior to balance, desire a dictatorship of their politics. Moderates are seen as cowards or traitors, no better than the &#8216;others,&#8217; and partisanship becomes the driving force of both camps. The people- seeing that their side will not remain in power forever under plural rule- resolve to destroy the opposing force. The people are seized by a spirit of violence, of war, the Aresian spirit. American political life cycles through Nietzschean aesthetic modes- Apollo, Dionysus, and Ares culminating in periodic collapse.</p><p>Planned Prosperity In 1945 the Greatest Generation returned from their service in the Second Great War to find a nation that had, in their absence, shifted into a different place in the world. The bureaucratic expansion that had taken place during the Great Depression remained as a part of life, rather than withering away in the post-war optimism. The families that exploded in size entering the 1950s were not living in the same free fashion of opulence that those of the 1920s were. It was greater, but performative, more controlled, monitored and managed not only by the local community, but the state as well. Prior to the intrusion of the government into citizens&#8217; lives in the 30s, elections and political moods were divided along ethnic and state lines. Parties represented not ideas or theory, but regions and peoples. This died during the war, and parties rode the government expansion like barnacles on a ship. The bureaucracy exchanged that tribal inclination for a political one, the parties themselves becoming the identity around which people formed. Fiscal Conservatism, Socialism, Civic Nationalism, Globalism, and other political capeshittery.</p><p>The parties then, in that short period between 1945 and 1950, became inhabited not by the goals of different groups of Americans, but the artistic spirits that exist in political ideas separate from the tribal drive of man. The spirits however became the tribes through their manifestation in the people, and lost the potential for balance. In the 1950s the Apollonian spirit filled the American people; undoubtedly due to war veterans of a more bigoted inclination returning home in victory, and being the driving force of the public Geist. The Civil Rights Act&#8212;for example was passed significantly in part as a way to honor President Kennedy, and even then it faced push back. A desire for structure, order, and romanticism for an era of a homogenous America which the Apollonian drivers essentially missed out on was the foundation for the &#8216;50s, and also for the youthful revolution that followed. Violence and the Aresian had been exhausted overseas in Europe and the Pacific, so the expansive Big government was both tolerable and preferred to the constituent class in their desire for order.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5C14!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e3c89cf-b6ba-421c-96c4-04f5e0b42f99_1200x720.webp" width="1200" height="720" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Hippies from the late &#8216;60s.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In their desire for the American dream and their own personal movie-star life, the Greatest Generation created a vast generation of teenagers and young adults that grew up not being taught by their elders- but being told what society should be like. The mist surrounding progressivism and the Dionysian that originated from the Apollonian drivers&#8217; near unanimous presence in the structures of power led to ideological curiosity among the youth. The 1960s gave the Boomers their first gasp of influence, as the rising star of the public spirit, paired with the immense size of the generation compared to their parents. The Dionysian spirit was ignited, and the desire for overturning of the powers that be as an act of maturing and overcoming a past trauma took root. The Aresian first breathed life here, and was an agent of the Dionysian as a tool of debate. Full-scale violence was repressed for controlled, surgical aggression. This materialized as protesting for social justice, hippies wandering the country, experimenting with drug use, and the first rise of draft dodging during the early years of the Vietnam war.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZL2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34f57e3c-b436-495e-8dce-ed7e278cbbd4_1200x806.webp" width="1200" height="806" 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The structurally secure gerontocracy stumbled over Vietnam and Watergate. The rebellious spirited youth were unable to make headway in implementing their ideas in the halls of power. The levers of authority could not decide which spirit was more dominant. So the spirits fell away, and both camps became possessed by the spirit of war and violence, the Aresian spirit. The struggling revolution took a violent tone with Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Black Liberation Army, and many other splinter groups forming in order to trigger a global revolution from the public squares of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. It did not end suddenly in 1980, but instead tapered off as all violence does, however it drew most blood in the 1970s, prominently with the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol bombings by Weather Underground.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Sw-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23cd9019-fd7e-4aa4-bc05-3c033f87d79f_450x278.jpeg" width="598" height="369.43111111111114" 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This is where the violence mobilized into groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood, The Order, the C.S.A. group, and a wave of K.K.K. and Skin-head Nazism. These movements extracted their vengeance against society with formations of militant compounds, bank and armored truck robberies, shootouts with federal authorities, bombings of federal institutions and centers of Jewish culture, and assassinations of public figures. It dropped off in intensity in the middle &#8216;80s, mainly due to a rebounding of society during the resurgence of the Apollonian spirit in the Reagan administration&#8217;s early years. The groups insisted on violence even into Reagan&#8217;s second term, certainly so that all their hard work didn&#8217;t go to waste, however the general will of the people was at this point turned off from the idea of a race war, guiding the Aresian back into the Apollonian.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wLxb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe159448-9b5a-4541-b5d6-600de56b9973_260x350.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wLxb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe159448-9b5a-4541-b5d6-600de56b9973_260x350.jpeg 424w, 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BUT WITHOUT A DEADLY HATE OF THAT WHICH THREATENS WHAT WE LOVE, LOVE IS AN EMPTY WORD, A CATCHWORD FOR HIPPIES, QUEERS, AND COWARDS</strong></em><strong>.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>-George Lincoln Rockwell</strong></p></div><p>The 1980s was a mostly successful attempt by the American Right to &#8216;<em>return</em>&#8217; to the &#8216;50s and the desire for order. The Communists were emboldened by the corrupt and ineffective presidencies of the &#8216;70s, and America would need a strongman that sought to bring back the ferocity that America demonstrated in Korea and the infant years of Vietnam. Reagan filled this slot with overwhelming approval from the public, and romanticism and order became the status quo. Just as our parents, senators, and teachers all sermonize us about the glory of the &#8216;80s, and how the difficult life of the wandering generation X youth made them into the hardened adults of today, so to were they sermonized by their parents, senators, and teachers about how things were better in the &#8216;50s, before progressivism, socialism, feminism, and other fanciful notions took root in the mutinous youths. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The Apollonian served America well, and with the anti-communist warpath that Reagan set us on, the Soviet Union was pushed over the edge. The traditionalists tried to break the cycle with the continuation of their ideals into the next decade with Bush Senior&#8217;s Administration, however Dionysus- the spirit of theater here, not the aforementioned spirit- will not be besmirched by our hubris. The Ross Perot 1992 candidacy was the first example of a spirit cannibalizing itself. The Apollonian grew restless on the now silent ramparts of power, and stepped down from its post to wander the halls of knowledge in the keep that it enjoyed from its authority. There was no enemy to fight, so surely if it were to spend its time debating itself and courting various ideas within its realm, it could do so unmolested by the Dionysian- this time the aforementioned spirit.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIuK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbfc0e3f-db78-4166-932a-be2ac23feb73_1600x899.jpeg" width="1456" height="818" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Presidential candidate and billionaire, Ross Perot.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In 1992 twelve years of Republican presidential dominance came to an end, courtesy of a split ballot between two conservative candidates and one progressive. The tent must be big, because whoever does not postpone the details for the broader strokes will hand the reins of power over to the ideological &#8216;<em>other</em>.&#8217;</p><p>The 1990s were, in truth, not meant to be Apollonian, regardless of how foolhardy the conservative political establishment was in strategy. The Cold War ended in 1991, technology broke down barriers between nations giving rise to xenophilia, and globalism was idealized as the logical end of not just social progress, but of technology itself. Clinton was an attempt by the Dionysian to reconcile the camps, with globalist policies like NAFTA, gun reform, and social reform in order to include minority communities in economic growth being policies for the party base&#8217;s enjoyment. Mirrored to that, the strengthening of police, stronger criminal punishments, and fiscal skepticism attempting to reach across the political aisle. In this cycle the Dionysian had a stronger seat of power, and the Apollonian was the disenfranchised camp. </p><p>Prior to this decade issues were political or necessary to resolve, but now every issue was political. If it was necessary to resolve, then negotiations were just a little bit more tense. Young people ignored politics to indulge themselves in debauchery and live what little life they had experienced up to that point to their greatest physical potential. Despite the issues that came from this hedonism, the &#8216;90s are rightfully considered to be the peak of western civilization. They had the face of Apollo but the spirit of Dionysus, the balance which we have run from so desperately in our tribalism. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png" width="853" height="584" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:584,&quot;width&quot;:853,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;r/UtterlyUniquePhotos - On this day in 1992 the Ruby Ridge Siege began. The below image is a FBI surveillance photo of Vicki Weaver shortly before the FBI shot her, they also shot and killed her 14 yr-old son, Sammy. Timothy McVeigh said this siege was a catalyst for the Oklahoma bombing.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="r/UtterlyUniquePhotos - On this day in 1992 the Ruby Ridge Siege began. The below image is a FBI surveillance photo of Vicki Weaver shortly before the FBI shot her, they also shot and killed her 14 yr-old son, Sammy. Timothy McVeigh said this siege was a catalyst for the Oklahoma bombing." title="r/UtterlyUniquePhotos - On this day in 1992 the Ruby Ridge Siege began. The below image is a FBI surveillance photo of Vicki Weaver shortly before the FBI shot her, they also shot and killed her 14 yr-old son, Sammy. Timothy McVeigh said this siege was a catalyst for the Oklahoma bombing." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jy33!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30170145-6d29-4675-a534-6f6452800ced_853x584.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Never Forget Ruby Ridge</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>However the tribalism remained, and the balance was upended all the same. The Aresian spirit rose on the right in opposition to globalism, Big Government, Federal Terror, and itemization of the system into economic units- the death of humanity. Ruby Ridge and Waco made the government into a boogeyman, and the following decade of violence was a reaction to the idea of an oppressive left-wing government. Militias became far more common, social life became political for even the common man, leftists responded to the dual loyalties of the government with eco-terrorism, and it peaked in 1995 with the Oklahoma City Bombing. An act against pre-socialist federal oppression, the attack by Timothy McVeigh was meant to inaugurate the next era of Aresian violence, and while it did trigger the government to react with more strong-handed policy, it still failed in its full intention. And the Dionysian was not asleep in its preparation, either. Rodney King and his martyrdom led to LA facing the worst riots in recent history. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LAIj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf4d410d-c397-4c37-99e7-7dee57f0ca43_800x562.jpeg" width="800" height="562" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Alleged Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Social justice has to march on, and it will not wait for procedure in the halls of power. The 2000s were meant to be the violent era, and the militant fervor of the &#8216;90s was only meant to be the crescendo to a far more violent, deadly peak. The next millennium would&#8217;ve begun with two Waco Sieges a year, and twice as many OKC attacks. Race riots would happen weekly and people would view them from the hills outside cities in exchange for the cinema. But the blood was not meant to be drawn out slowly. George W. Bush was inaugurated on January 20th, 2001 following a contentious election only rivaled in court violence by the 2020 election. Eight months and twenty one days later, Islamic extremists used four planes to kill nearly 3,000 American citizens in the space of six hours. The Aresian spirit lasted not ten years, but hardly even ten hours. Following the attack, Americans united under one cause and banner, and that was vengeful patriotism. The violence of the &#8216;90s was forgotten in the trauma, and the Apollonian clambered back into the seat of power overnight.</p><p>Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, and so many others became the target of the Aresian spirit, now channeled through the Apollonian desire for order and tradition. George Bush became the head of the nation in the same way that Lincoln was a response to the Confederacy, his presidency becoming a vehicle for a very specific conflict, rather than guiding the nation in all aspects of policy like most peace-time presidents have done. Even more than the passive romanticism of the &#8216;50s and &#8216;80s, the 2000s ensouled the Apollonian in its active constituents of directed violence, combative excellence, and a full contempt for the enemy in warfare, unless they fight as the ancient heroes did. The Patriot Act was the next step after Clinton&#8217;s anti-terror legislation, however now that it was directed at a certain target and not a broad definition of &#8216;<em>terrorist</em>,&#8217; even the most volatile neo-Nazis and McVeigh supporters cheered on the law.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rs54!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a30efd-28b2-4cb4-bda8-6d5d87370190_990x556.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rs54!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19a30efd-28b2-4cb4-bda8-6d5d87370190_990x556.png 424w, 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And where faith once kept man spiritual, the latest faith (and therefore most popular to the masses) of new age evangelism exists not for spiritual, but civic guidance in how best to serve the collective interest of the nation. The Apollonian filled the American man, woman, and child for eight long years. But as we know, it will not last. Not even by his own failures will the king be returned to serfdom. It just will happen. In 2008 the financial market crashed following the collapse of the mortgage bond market. A pessimism descended over the people, and the Apollonian spirit went back out to the field. The Dionysian absurdism replaced that pessimism and the people loved it for that reason. The individual was broke, soon homeless, and had been cheated out of the American dream. But in between weekends where men and women worshipped themselves as an affront to their looming poverty, they were driven to act. Why did 2008 kill the middle class? Some said the government, others said the rich, but everyone agreed that change had to happen. The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter all existed to liberate all people from all chains, and they would begin with the system that had yoked them as servants; it wasn&#8217;t meant to be a workers revolution, but a revolution against an unethical class of elites.</p><p>It did not remain so, and soon after their conception all class-centric movements descended into culture wars, infighting cannibalizing the movements. They splintered in their populist desire, one for a globalist cosmopolitan ideology which came to shape the Obama years, and one moving the right wing into the desert until 2015, when the MAGA party could coalesce as Trump rode down an escalator in New York. Until then the Dionysian spirit came to be understood as the neo-liberalist forces in power during the early and middle 2010s. Social Justice, radical feminism, racial reparations, political correctness- it all manifested in the public consciousness, a youthful rebirth from the tragic end of the last Apollonian era that would finally wrench the levers of power from the traditionalists once and for all, and the global liberation could happen peacefully. The people had hope, and wanted to save their country from bigotry and racism. They believed that you could scream all you want, but you couldn&#8217;t stop progress.</p><p>And their populism failed. Their flavor of it, in the least. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in a contentious election, however despite his fiscal conservatism and fiery rhetoric, at this point the people still largely believed in the Dionysian, even many of his supporters despite his semi-Apollonian political psyche. He did present a novel change, and that was a movement that was less romantic for the previous era, instead focusing more on order and rationality in policy. As with all late-stage Dionysian eras, there is an attempt to skip ahead to the fresh Apollonian spirit, and Trump nearly did it during his first term. He was popular enough, passed some large policies, and reversed a few small bills from the Obama era.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m7fC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0babf667-55a2-4fa0-9042-ce765196a230_1500x1053.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m7fC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0babf667-55a2-4fa0-9042-ce765196a230_1500x1053.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m7fC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0babf667-55a2-4fa0-9042-ce765196a230_1500x1053.jpeg 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Just like Dionysius and his theater, so too will Ares and his violence extract his tribute from our people. Covid-19 froze the world in 2020 and majorly caused Trump to lose his reelection bid that same year. Apollo was cast out. Joe Biden was elected in 2020 in a suspicious and hotly contested election, however while Obama was elected to bring society to a point where one could celebrate without end, Joe Biden was elected specifically to undo what Trump had done. </p><p>In May of 2020 George Floyd&#8217;s death triggered a wave of violent protests and riots, reigniting the Dionysian desire for liberation and individual freedom, with the Aresian instinct for violence. </p><p>Trump supporters under their own directive stormed the Capitol on January 6th in order to prevent the certification of the election. Ares has returned, but muted this time; thanks to the pandemic, no doubt. The violence was delayed, at least for a couple years. But it did continue. </p><p>In 2021 two men were arrested while plotting a terror attack against the DNC headquarters in Sacramento. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOAl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4f6e905-c6c3-401c-8ff7-16eaf1935cc2_5175x6675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOAl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4f6e905-c6c3-401c-8ff7-16eaf1935cc2_5175x6675.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://a.co/d/0i52nrar&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Purchase your copy today!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://a.co/d/0i52nrar"><span>Purchase your copy today!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>In 2022 an abortion clinic was firebombed in Pensacola (among over eighty other attacks of similar targets,) a racially motivated shooting took place in Buffalo, a man was arrested in an attempt to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh after the Roe v. Wade draft leak, a black supremacist shot up a subway car in New York, a man attacked an FBI field office in Cincinnati, and a failed state congressional candidate shot at his competitor&#8217;s houses in New Mexico. In 2023 a man shot up an outlet mall in Allen for racial motivations, and in Jacksonville a white man shot three black people before killing himself. </p><p>In 2024 two men attempted to shoot and kill presidential candidate Donald Trump, once in Butler, Pennsylvania coming within inches of a fatal injury and a second time in West Palm Beach, Florida, only retreating when shot at by Secret Service agents. </p><p>In 2025 an Islamic terrorist drove a truck through a crowd of people in New Orleans, an Army veteran blew up a Tesla truck in Las Vegas, a transgender shot up a church in Minneapolis, and on September 10th a man shot and killed the right-wing figure Charlie Kirk. Militant groups are slowly resurging, both on the right and the left. However this is not the full effect of Ares. This is his waking stirs. During his exile Donald Trump adopted more aspects of the Apollonian, and drew back from bipartisan efforts. Joe Biden&#8217;s administration was violent in the halls of power towards the right, and in return that procedural Aresian spirit has inhabited the right wing. Broadly speaking most violence thus far in this period has been done by the ruling powers, a novel shift from what we have seen in the past. And since September we have seen a lull in literal bloodshed. But it will not last.</p><div><hr></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4dc7a50-e3e4-453d-a792-89e8b7927669_664x443.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/931a3ee9-e679-4dbe-bbbb-41c879ed8411_1800x1200.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Charlie Kirk and Staff Sgt. Daniel Abbott of the Campbell County Militia &quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0fc8a96b-b0e7-40d0-acc3-43b8bb8efc53_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Much like how the impatience and tribalism of man drives the two spirits into opposition, so too does it drive civilians from loyalty to the establishment and the unhurried crawl of bureaucracy. The war will not remain in the courts, and it will come out into the streets when the board is set in the midterms. Trump&#8217;s second administration has not been romantic for the past, like the Apollonian eras before, but instead one purely of order and national cohesion under a new social contract. It is my hypothesis that the Trump administration is saving many &#8216;nuclear options&#8217; for legal warfare until after the midterms, and leftists are similarly restraining a reign of terror until either right before or soon after the midterms conclude. Both sides believe that if they can win the midterms, they will win the following presidential election through the shifting public favor. If the right wins, the left will unleash a strong wave of protests, riots, and possibly assassination attempts. They have precedent for that much. The right will unleash many of its &#8216;nuclear&#8217; options here, with a stronger position in the government than they currently do. If the left wins, the right will escalate its legal war against the left in a heavier handed more dictatorial fashion, possibly going so far as refusing to certify election results. If it gets to this point, the left will begin undermining the institutions through the system, as well as engaging in violence outside in the streets. That will be the great escalation of this Aresian spirit&#8217;s era. Something else to keep in mind is that the eras are growing more vibrant, more potent in their essence.</p><p>Trump is more conservative than Bush, who was more conservative than Reagan, who was more conservative than Eisenhower. Obama was more progressive than Clinton, who was more progressive than Kennedy and Johnson. The 2000s were going to be more violent than the &#8216;70s. Logically speaking that means that the Aresian is going to be stronger in the coming years and entering the &#8216;30s than it has ever been. It will logically crescendo even higher in 2028 after the Presidential election to a point beyond the Days of Rage, Chattanooga, and OKC.</p><p>Perhaps all will happen in conjunction. We will become desensitized to the headlines, militant groups will openly represent themselves as guardians of local order, and in 2032 both tickets will be some form of, &#8216;<em>We&#8217;re going to imprison or kill the other side</em>.&#8217; Maybe that&#8217;s dramatic. Perhaps the parties will resort to grassroots death squads and secret police forces instead of outright policy. But we won&#8217;t shy away from the violence. But democracy, the father of the spirits, demands that its children all get a turn. In &#8216;36 both tickets will be some form of, &#8216;<em>bring the country back together</em>.&#8217; A return to sanity, surely. The Apollonian will win, order will prevail, and from that order people will begin to seek liberation from order, eventually sacrificing safety, and violence will return. Our optimism does not mean we aren&#8217;t going to pick up our guns when the next time comes around. There is no peaceful time to &#8216;<em>return to</em>,&#8217; since it will lead to violence. There is no point at which the violence stops. Progress will keep running us into that same violence. This is our system, not just voting and barking at the TV. This is democracy, manifest. It is not what we should want to pass onto our children. An endless back-and-forth between rapid revolution and slow and steady descent into the same abysmally demoralizing end.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png" width="401" height="450" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:450,&quot;width&quot;:401,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:211266,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/189678445?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_64r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25a2a86e-8191-4e08-8256-5bb0aad719b1_401x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The cycle must end, but when and how? It will end when the social contract of civic or ideological nationalism regardless of whether it&#8217;s open to all or restricted in growth- is wiped out. Otherwise the system and its benefactors- the elites of all industries will perpetuate, and the violence will envelope our children just as it does to us. They may not admit it, but the leaders, anchors, and everyone else that holds power to some effect want an instantaneous violent foreign terror attack to replace the drawn out fraternal violence of the Aresian spirit. This is the most effective way to drive the cycle forward into the next peaceful period. It may even be a sustainable practice. A foreign terror attack even in this contentious era would unite the country around one flag. But this would not break the cycle; instead it would cement it for the next thirty years. And we want to break it, as established. We want perpetual national peace, not the principled fratricide of liberalism. In the words of Paine, &#8220;<em>if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace</em>.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UE1O!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F389199a5-f9ed-4622-ae13-f238bdbc7fd8_260x370.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UE1O!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F389199a5-f9ed-4622-ae13-f238bdbc7fd8_260x370.png 424w, 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The Aresian spirit must be sustained long enough to either become a distinct political force- with the goal of upending the social contractor to outright destroy the system through the efficient cause of violence. Despite the peril, you must ignore the system, and seek not acceptance, but disdain by the ruling class. To this end, a collective, a fasces, must form, and invoke pageantry, patriotism, and at times violent force upon the nation. The &#8216;<em>American</em>&#8217; must be defined, this identity should become the political religion of the collective. The Apollonian will protest in a love for the systems, procedures, and all other failed projects of the Constitution. The Dionysian will protest in a love for the cosmopolitan, a man free from all chains, including the obligation to father and fatherland. This is because the Apollonian and the Dionysian exist as products of this twisted violent system in which we exist. Without it the spirits would not exist. They are not individual beings, but instead they are the collective wills of the people, their tribal identities. Therefore the people will naturally see an attack on the system as an attack on them, as participants of the system. People have not lost their tribal labels, only exchanged them for ones that are not supposed to be tribal. Ideas are not meant to be tribes, but history will leave us all behind; even theory. Strengthen your resolve when your parents, brothers, sister, neighbors, and at times wives doubt, hate, and revile you. Your ascension beyond their political games trigger growing pains on their part, and they will accept you given time. They, too, will join this new way.</p><p>The collective is what liberalism failed to invoke; it is the Apollonian and the Dionysian in conjunction, in balance. It is born from the Aresian because that is the time of rebirth, of mutation, and of ideological diversity. The only principle of the collective is patriotism, all else is subject unto the needs of the nation. When liberation is needed, the Dionysian is indulged. When order must be imposed, the Apollonian is indulged.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png" width="282" height="392.0933852140078" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1072,&quot;width&quot;:771,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:282,&quot;bytes&quot;:975916,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/189678445?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb52167dd-de68-4841-8cdb-4bd3fb078560_1545x1999.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGxJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18fb320d-8d37-422d-bdaf-f213328ff8f2_771x1072.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>A new tribal identity is formed here, just as we had prior to the 1930s. Where our pluralist democracy failed, collectivism the will of the daring few, imposed on the many&#8212;will reunite the country for a simple purpose, and that is lasting and stable peace among the constituents of the nation.</p><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg" width="640" height="333" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:333,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The Goebbels Experiment&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The Goebbels Experiment" title="The Goebbels Experiment" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1d29!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F771c0f0b-bb8d-4c64-979f-5a81b8c9e4dc_640x333.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>This week we will be featuring The Goebbels Experiment by Lutz Hachmeister:</p><p>Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of National Socialist Germany's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, is examined.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/da44db45-0983-4ca7-a0c6-2f06f8af2a6e_1333x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b88765a2-a8b3-4409-afb3-1fc41f22f841_1333x2000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c962c845-58d0-4edf-84c8-ce1693f477c8_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was 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rhyme.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-french-revolution-in-haiti</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-french-revolution-in-haiti</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reactionary Programmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:00:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zrs-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcf81cb8-7a13-45d1-8971-f459e0d68903_850x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>We know that history does not repeat itself; what repeats itself is always the process of the rise and fall of empires, the emergence and disappearance of peoples and races. That said, it is necessary to understand certain past phenomena and draw lessons from them for the future; Haitian history is exceptional for understanding certain phenomena that occurred, as well as catastrophes that are looming in the medium and long term.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>In the 18th century, Haiti, or Saint-Domingue, was considered the jewel of the West Indies, composed of 3 castes: Whites, Mulattoes, and Blacks; the first, landowners and holding privilege over the latter two; the mulattoes, of whom few were rural landowners, were a level above the pure-race blacks in Haiti. The Haitian economy was based on the planting of sugarcane, tobacco, and coffee, all exported to Europe. According to Lothrop Stoddard, in his book &#8220;<em>The French Revolution in Saint-Domingue</em>&#8221; (Saint-Domingue was at the time the name of the future Republic of Haiti), the revolt of the Black people began around 1780, stemming from the French Revolution. It happened that white people traveled to France at this time and absorbed the ideas of &#8220;<em>Equality, Liberty, and Fraternity</em>,&#8221; and upon returning, they spoke of these ideas to the enslaved people, which began to inflame anti-white sentiment in Haiti.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a-RY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f3fd6fa-d218-4194-a7cd-1e6300545991_768x1154.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a-RY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f3fd6fa-d218-4194-a7cd-1e6300545991_768x1154.webp 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Lothrop Stoddard (1883&#8211;1950).</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;</strong>Academics keep writing about the glorious slave revolt of Haiti (1791-1804). As if it still is the best thing that could have happened to Haiti. But it is the worst thing that happened to Haiti. Ever since the slave revolt against the French, Haiti has been in chaos. Massive human suffering, lasting destruction. Why celebrate that? But no: Let&#8217;s hold another conference on that fantastic Haitian Revolution<strong>.&#8221;</strong></p><p>&#8213; Bruce Gilley</p></div><p>The <em>Amis des Noirs</em>, white people who proclaimed racial equality, also fueled this sentiment in the colony. With this cauldron of revolutionary ideas, and following the French Revolution of 1789, it only took two years for the Black people to rebel. </p><p>On August 21, 1791, the revolt broke out in Saint-Domingue, according to Stoddard: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>A group of national guards, who ventured out of the plain, were suddenly overwhelmed at the half-light of dawn by a horde of blacks, whose hideous standard was the impaled body of a white child. Only three soldiers escaped to deliver the terrible news</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VC2X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg" width="407" height="588.7884267631104" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32a694aa-8a88-4084-bb92-1bbdc967e6d1_553x800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:800,&quot;width&quot;:553,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:407,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Jean Jacques Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman's head&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Jean Jacques Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman's head" title="Jean Jacques Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman's head" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jean-Jacques Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman&#8217;s head.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>And it doesn&#8217;t stop there; Stoddard sought out the milder accounts among the most cruel. Here is another: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The atrocities committed against white women and children are unbelievable: &#8216;The mulattoes,&#8217; writes the Colonial Assembly to the commissioners in Paris &#8211; &#8216;They disembowel pregnant women, and before death, force the husbands to eat this horrible fruit.</em>&#8217; <em>Other children are thrown to the pigs</em>.&#8221; </p></blockquote><p>The revolution unfolded in this way, the Amis des Noirs of our time conceal this information. Many whites from Saint-Domingue immigrated to the United States, knowing that if they stayed in their land, they would be brutally executed, while a good portion went to France. Napoleon Bonaparte also took part in this revolution, sending his brother-in-law, General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc and 40,000 troops, who initially succeeded in defeating the Haitian General Toussaint L'Ouverture and sending him as a prisoner to France, where he died of pneumonia. Dessalines took his place, and he lost several battles to Leclerc, although the French army as well as Leclerc perished due to yellow fever and its inability to adapt to the climate of Saint-Domingue, leaving the place in November 1803, and here is the Coup de Grace: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>When the French troops left the country in 1803, Dessalines promised protection to all the white civilians who had gone to France during the war. The favorable treatment afforded to whites induced a considerable number of them to return to Saint-Domingue. But as soon as the black leader was seated on his Imperial throne, barely had the following year begun, Dessalines issued orders to massacre the local white population, marking Haitian politics</em>.&#8221; </p></blockquote><p>The white Haitians were killed in a cruel and cowardly manner; according to Stoddard, this catastrophe was the harbinger of something even more terrible in the future. In the present day, the black movement uses violence typical of its race. All these anti-white agitations were foreseen by eugenicists in the past. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CFcH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff319934d-b08e-4bc5-890d-12f918446294_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CFcH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff319934d-b08e-4bc5-890d-12f918446294_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CFcH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff319934d-b08e-4bc5-890d-12f918446294_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f319934d-b08e-4bc5-890d-12f918446294_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1920,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:509751,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;How Minneapolis became America's flashpoint for protests&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="How Minneapolis became America's flashpoint for protests" title="How Minneapolis became America's flashpoint for protests" 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Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the fountains; burn and annihilate everything, in order that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of hell which they deserve.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>- Toussaint L&#8217;Ouverture in an 1802 letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines</em></p></div><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><p>This week we will be featuring two documentaries on Auschwitz:</p><ul><li><p><em>George Lincoln Rockwell: A National Socialist Pioneer</em></p></li><li><p><em>Bilderberg: The Movie</em> by Jake Bexx</p></li></ul><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div 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type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!grUt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b18be8-bca3-4eb4-9dac-304cbc2ab95d_479x612.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!grUt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b18be8-bca3-4eb4-9dac-304cbc2ab95d_479x612.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!grUt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b18be8-bca3-4eb4-9dac-304cbc2ab95d_479x612.png 848w, 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The Orthodox Church does not oppose these groups out of rivalry or sectarian pride, but out of fidelity to the faith &#8220;<em>once delivered to the saints</em>.&#8221; What unites the errors of these movements is the attempt to reconstruct, modify, or replace the apostolic deposit through new doctrines, private revelations, or interpretive novelties divorced from the living continuity of the Church founded by Christ. Each movement approaches Scripture through a hermeneutic of separation rather than communion, and each substitutes historical rupture for apostolic continuity.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Seventh-day Adventism errs first in binding the Old Covenant Sabbath to the life of Christians in the New Covenant. The Apostle Paul commands believers not to allow themselves to be judged by the observance of Sabbaths, for such practices were &#8220;<em>a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ</em>,&#8221; making clear that the Sabbath pointed toward the fulfillment of all creation in the Resurrection. St. Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of the Apostle John writing near the year 110, affirms that Christians are no longer bound to the Sabbath but now live according to the Lord&#8217;s Day. St. Justin Martyr likewise explains that the Old Covenant feasts were temporary commands given to restrain sin and hardness of heart, not permanent marks of Christian identity. Adventism further elevates Ellen G. White as a continuing prophetic authority, but St. John of Damascus teaches that what the apostles handed down, the Fathers preserved, guided by the Holy Spirit&#8212;there is no second prophetic foundation after Christ.</p><div><hr></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c60f11e-778d-44e1-b084-04ca7997eae0_432x576.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2908f33-0d51-4603-845a-018c19a92130_695x800.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;John Calvin (Left) and St. Ignatius of Antioch (Right)&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0d3f0a3-b615-43ca-9067-5987bf54b03d_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Pentecostalism and the Assemblies of God movement separate charismatic experience from the sacramental and liturgical life of the apostolic Church. Scripture teaches that God is not the author of confusion but of peace, and St. Irenaeus testifies that where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God&#8212;not in private spiritual phenomena detached from apostolic order. St. Cyril of Jerusalem warns believers not to seek tongues or emotional ecstasy, but to pursue wisdom and sober communion in the Church. When charismata are removed from the Eucharist, the priesthood, and apostolic succession, they cease to be gifts of God and become psychological or emotional self-confirmation.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;<em>One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church, for in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life; she is the door of life</em>.&#8221; - St. Irenaeus of Lyons</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oU6p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b0fc9d6-b02f-45d8-a827-3e00168418a5_1200x675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Sola Scriptura has no foundation in Scripture itself, for the Apostles command the faithful to hold fast to both written and unwritten traditions. St. Basil the Great affirms that many doctrines are preserved through apostolic tradition transmitted in the Church, not merely through written text. Likewise, Sola Fide contradicts the clear apostolic teaching that faith without works is dead and that justification is not by faith alone. St. John Chrysostom teaches that true faith must be accompanied by a life that accords with righteousness, or else it is merely a confession of words and not a participation in Christ.</p><p>Mormonism departs from Christianity by teaching that God was once a man and that humans may become gods. The Shema&#8212;&#8220;<em>The Lord our God is one</em>&#8221;&#8212;remains the foundation of revealed monotheism. </p><p>St. Irenaeus proclaims the rule of faith in one God, the Father Almighty, and one Lord Jesus Christ who is eternally divine. Mormonism further introduces new scriptures beyond the apostolic deposit, whereas St. Vincent of L&#233;rins established that the true faith is that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all. Revelation ended with the apostolic witness; there is no further gospel.</p><p>Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses repeat the ancient Arian heresy by denying the full divinity of Christ. Yet John&#8217;s Gospel announces that the Word was God, and St. Athanasius teaches that the Son is not a creature, but the eternal offspring of the Father. St. Gregory of Nyssa affirms that the Trinity is one essence shared equally, without division or hierarchy of being. To deny Christ&#8217;s divinity is to sever salvation itself, for only God can save.</p><p>Restorationist movements claim that the true Church disappeared and had to be restored, but this contradicts Christ&#8217;s promise to be with the Church always, even to the end of the age. St. Irenaeus testifies that the apostolic tradition can be observed in every Church, and St. Cyprian teaches that no one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother. The Church has never ceased; only schisms have departed from her.</p><p>Dispensationalism fragments salvation history into separate dispensations, suggesting distinct divine plans for Israel and the Gentiles. Yet the Apostle Paul teaches that Christ has made both one in His Body and reconciled all through the Cross.</p><p>St. Augustine explains that the New Covenant fulfills the Old, and St. Irenaeus emphasizes that one and the same God has guided mankind from creation through redemption. There are not two peoples of God, nor two paths of salvation.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png" width="410" height="496.92" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:909,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:410,&quot;bytes&quot;:819540,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/186419654?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dihX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a8a5093-7ee6-4da2-ba9a-c869f9ae96e8_750x909.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>These systems share a common flaw: each stands outside the living continuity of the apostolic Church. None possess the unbroken succession of bishops, the Eucharistic unity of the ancient Church, or the conciliar mind of the Fathers. The Orthodox Church alone preserves the faith of the Apostles, the doctrinal integrity of the Ecumenical Councils, and the sacramental life that unites the believer to Christ. To embrace these modern innovations is to sever oneself from the Body of Christ. The call remains: return to the faith of the Fathers, to the Church of the Councils, to the One Holy, Apostolic, and Catholic Orthodoxy.</p><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><p>This week we will be featuring two documentaries:</p><ul><li><p><em>George Lincoln Rockwell: A National Socialist Pioneer</em></p></li><li><p><em>Bilderberg: The Movie</em> by Jake Bexx</p></li></ul><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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PDF</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Men of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Napoleon Bonaparte, William Shakespeare, and Richard Wagner.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/great-men-of-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/great-men-of-history</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:03:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zCSB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fabebe758-1d03-4ac0-838c-60ac8c053b8e_430x512.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Doubtless, there was a greatness about these men that established them as exemplars for each successive era. While not entirely flawless, their very names denote a certain weightiness which many men aspire to. They were models of artists, of kings, and of many things that make a good man. And yet, so few eminently great men come to the foreground of history every hundred years.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>On what basis can we call a man great? To what, exactly, ought we aspire to become as men? Are we limited to some perfect pie-in-the-sky ideal, or can a sinful and broken man still be great?</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>&#8220;</em>&#8230;Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these<em>.&#8221; -</em>Thomas Carlyle<strong><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></strong></p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RRxo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71fb9977-1eae-4899-9c4c-1f68411058ac_785x1200.webp" 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pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Thomas Carlyle</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>If Carlyle&#8217;s work is inspected closely, it is quite clear that he is no Christian and does not hold up Jesus Christ as the greatest man or even as a man we should seek to emulate. With this fault stated at the outset, there remains much to be gained through careful contemplation of his work, even if he does not fit seamlessly into your overall ideological project. He is certainly a good place to start in considering some great men of history, the nature of history, and how we might adopt some semblance of the greatness that has gone on before us to our benefit. There is much practical advice in his work On Heroes, which can be found freely online.</p><p>Carlyle posits that heroism, and therefore greatness, is best understood through six archetypes: the Divine (or Creator), the Prophet, the Poet, the Priest, the Man of Letters, and the King. These are not strict categories of what certain historical (or fictional) heroes must fall under, but rather are ways to better understand the function of heroes in the upbuilding and preservation of a people. Heroism is constructive at its core. A truly great man is not purely a force for destruction without the renewal of what is good and the restoration of order.</p><p>As an aside, it may be worthwhile to note that Communism, at its roots, is a revolutionary ideology that destroys and fails to truly create. Communist &#8220;<em>prophets</em>&#8221; declare and demand the worship of man rather than the worship of the only true God. Communist &#8220;<em>poets</em>&#8221; attack beauty and give words to guttural animalistic urges rather than defending beauty and expressing it appropriately. Communist &#8220;<em>priests</em>&#8221; demand conformity to corruption and degeneracy rather than demanding moral rectitude and a life of integrity. Communist <em>&#8220;men of letters</em>&#8221; argue for the degradation of humanity and the destruction of tradition rather than the genuine elevation of humanity through truth, goodness, and beauty. Communist &#8220;<em>kings</em>&#8221; are continually genocidal and usurious, destroying the very same people they ought to protect with their God-given authority. Finally, communist &#8220;creators&#8221; may attempt to create something new that has never been tried before, but continually create frameworks in which the prior villains thrive.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ao4O!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10ea362-91e4-4390-b67d-32cdc0fc408f_483x348.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ao4O!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd10ea362-91e4-4390-b67d-32cdc0fc408f_483x348.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Israel Epstein (front line, second right) visited Yan&#8217;an in 1944 with Mao (top right).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Carlyle&#8217;s six archetypes, which were just now utilized to critique ideological leaders of communism, are quite helpful to employ as a scaffolding while one works toward developing a more comprehensive theory of history (formally called historiography).<strong><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></strong> However, his work seems to be incomplete and, at times, essentially overcomplicates the issue. One may instead think through the biblical roles of Priest, King, and Prophet as a viable framework for heroism. This offers a sharper, more unified lens than Carlyle&#8217;s scheme because it is rooted in the covenantal structure of Scripture itself, and even in the very nature of man growing to maturity.</p><p>The event of the fall of man in the garden of Eden occurred essentially because Adam abdicated his biblical roles. He failed to declare truth against the lie of the serpent (abdicating his prophetic responsibilities), he failed to establish justice for wrongdoing (abdicating his kingly responsibilities), and he failed to guard the garden&#8217;s righteousness by crushing the head of the snake (abdicating his priestly responsibilities). At each layer, Adam failed.</p><p>The structure of the Old Testament of the Bible centers around the maturity (or lack thereof) of the people of God. In the priestly age, God&#8217;s people received the law and were responsible for holding it as their code of righteousness so that they might rightly worship God. They failed to guard this righteousness and continually turned away from God&#8217;s standard. In the kingly age, they were responsible for declaring justice on the wicked and defending the innocent. They again failed for the most part, and many of the kings of the time did the exact opposite. In the prophetic age, they were responsible for declaring truth in a world deceived by the forces of evil. Instead, they killed those who sought to declare truth and celebrated those who taught what was convenient. In these things, they mimicked Adam&#8217;s failure closely.</p><p>As Christians, we hold Jesus Christ to be the Great Man and the ultimate standard for heroism. He is the perfect Priest, King, and Prophet of His people, the Church.<strong><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></strong> In each stage of maturity, Christ succeeds when His people fail. Jesus Christ declares truth over the devil&#8217;s lies, establishes justice in His reign, and ultimately crushes the head of the snake. It is through union with Christ that man has the capacity to mature spiritually and fulfill in his own life the roles which God has called them to fulfill. When we are young in the faith, we take what is handed down and seek to guard it. As we mature into kingship, we seek to enact God&#8217;s will righteously. Maturing then into man&#8217;s prophetic role, we seek to publicly declare the truth without fear. These are both stages as well as roles that men must continually seek to fulfill.</p><p>There are many men throughout history who have faithfully fulfilled these roles, serving as examples for men who seek to do the same. Richard Wagner embodied the prophetic role through musical and operatic stories, writing leitmotifs that sought to make audible the objectivity of virtuous or evil actions or characters. Men such as William Shakespeare wrote characters both to show how these roles may be rightly fulfilled (such as Henry V) and how the roles may be abdicated or abused in perversion and villainy (Macbeth, King Lear, Antony). This sort of art takes discernment, erudition, and a sort of spiritual maturity to create. Men like Napoleon Bonaparte or Frederick the Great upheld law and order in a world that seemed to consist of only chaos continually.</p><p>Dear reader, be encouraged by the men who have gone before us. Aspire to greatness. To this end, seek to be Christlike! Worthily fulfill your priestly, kingly, and prophetic roles in your family, community, and nation. Do this with integrity, and your very name may well carry weight with those who come after you.</p><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><p>This week we will be featuring two documentaries on Auschwitz: </p><ul><li><p>David Cole&#8217;s &#8220;<em>David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper</em>&#8221;</p></li><li><p>&amp; &#8220;<em>Auschwitz: The Surprising Hidden Truth&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/47d9dc1c-d244-4252-8f6a-88f397d84fef_1333x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99351142-1163-4544-82e8-0e7304af9aeb_1333x2000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70cd3daf-25f1-4bb3-82c5-7f2d420ed9f0_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was needed:</p><ul><li><p>The official version from Rockwell&#8217;s own party was poorly formatted.</p></li><li><p>There was a ton of missing context.</p></li><li><p>It was clearly edited to add bias or reference events that took place after Rockwell was killed.</p></li></ul><p>So of we fixed those issues.</p><p>Our new edition includes:</p><ul><li><p>Clean, readable typesetting</p></li><li><p>Restored original text</p></li><li><p>Fair historical context</p></li><li><p>An updated forward</p></li><li><p>Over 40 pages of endnotes</p></li><li><p>Brand new cover art</p></li><li><p>Hyperlinks for easy navigation (PDF only)</p></li><li><p>6&#8221;x9&#8221; Hardcover and Paperback options</p></li></ul><p>The new edition is available now:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=I4OHiJbUI8Z4sozd0yR5S9aZasrBaITWyWKV4reuYWK&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Hardcover ($30)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=I4OHiJbUI8Z4sozd0yR5S9aZasrBaITWyWKV4reuYWK"><span>Hardcover ($30)</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=LCX6sD0DDrUmFJ8coiHUrbewGAvAwIxylQgB9yUieEs&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Paperback ($20)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=LCX6sD0DDrUmFJ8coiHUrbewGAvAwIxylQgB9yUieEs"><span>Paperback ($20)</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://t.me/fifth_column_library/302&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Free PDF&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library/302"><span>Free PDF</span></a></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091- h.htm#link2H_4_0002/.">Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes: Lecture I. </a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>For a more comprehensive work of historiography, this writer highly recommends the work of Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West. The initial volume of that work is available for free at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344.">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72344.</a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/boston/The%20 Offices%20of%20Christ%20-%20Thomas%20Boston.pdf/.">The Offices of Christ, Thomas Boston. </a></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Roman Catholicism & American Nationalism Can’t Coexist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chronological Indictment of Doctrinal Reversal, Ecclesiastical Hegemony, and Fraternal Hypocrisy:]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/why-roman-catholicism-and-american</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/why-roman-catholicism-and-american</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gnostoktonos Illustrations]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:03:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png" width="728" height="263.29333333333335" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:217,&quot;width&quot;:600,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:728,&quot;bytes&quot;:256964,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/187401576?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed095e8c-0555-4930-9bfb-ca159247505c_600x338.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prys!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fac52bb-9574-4993-881b-81aec4e8b52e_600x217.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The history of Christendom reveals that no institution has repeatedly demonstrated unilateral doctrinal innovation and the assertion of centralized power more than the Roman Catholic Church. From the perspective of American values&#8212;rooted in liberty, accountability, and fidelity to principle&#8212;Rome&#8217;s record appears as a systematic betrayal of its closest Christian brethren, the Orthodox Church.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The history of Christendom reveals that no institution has repeatedly demonstrated unilateral doctrinal innovation and the assertion of centralized power more than the Roman Catholic Church. From the perspective of American values&#8212;rooted in liberty, accountability, and fidelity to principle&#8212;Rome&#8217;s record appears as a systematic betrayal of its closest Christian brethren, the Orthodox Church.</p><p>This self-disclosure has now been confirmed not merely by historical evidence, but by Rome itself. In a June 13, 2024 press conference of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity concerning The Bishop of Rome: Primacy and Synodality, the Vatican acknowledged that the current model of papal supremacy is &#8220;<em>the pyramidal Church</em>, so <em>{{set up since the Gregorian Reformation}}</em>,&#8221; in which &#8220;<em>{{the Bishop of Rome is the apex of the hierarchical pyramid, the Supreme Pontiff who governs not only the Church of Rome, but the universal Church with proper, full and universal power.}}</em>&#8221;</p><p>Rome openly admits that this structure is not apostolic, but the result of the 11th-century Gregorian reforms. This is a direct acknowledgment that the first millennium of the Church did not recognize any universal papal monarchy, but only primacy of honor within a conciliar framework shared among the patriarchal sees. The change from conciliar equality to monarchical supremacy was structural and doctrinal, replacing the governance of bishops in council with a single juridical sovereign claiming universal jurisdiction. The Vatican&#8217;s own statement confirms that papal supremacy is a medieval innovation&#8212;precisely the position the Orthodox Church has maintained from the beginning: Rome departed from the original apostolic order and re-engineered the Church into a centralized power pyramid foreign to the Fathers.</p><p>The first major rupture from the ancient system emerged in the addition of the Filioque clause to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. By inserting &#8220;<em>and the Son</em>&#8221; into the Creed without conciliar consent, Rome altered Trinitarian doctrine and broke canonical order. This marked a decisive shift: Rome now asserted for itself not only primacy, but unilateral authority over universal faith and doctrine. The schism of 1054 formalized this reality, when Rome excommunicated the East on the false premise that it retained universal jurisdiction to do so without an ecumenical council. The Eastern response merely mirrored the act; Rome&#8217;s presumption created the divide.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png" width="750" height="443" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:443,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:536187,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/187401576?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHQy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95d1e029-8a3b-4ceb-90aa-8c930718a2df_750x443.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The Fourth Crusade in 1204 demonstrated the consequences of this usurpation. Under the direction and blessing of the Papacy, Crusaders sacked Constantinople, desecrated churches, and slaughtered Orthodox Christians. The Papacy then replaced the legitimate Orthodox Patriarchate with a Latin hierarchy, revealing that unity for Rome meant not brotherhood, but domination. Forced conversions, liturgical coercion, and inquisitorial pressures followed for centuries.</p><p>Rome&#8217;s diplomacy repeatedly prioritized political expediency over Christian solidarity. While Orthodox Christians suffered under Islamic conquest, Rome launched alliances with Muslim powers and later adopted</p><p>theological accommodations that contradicted earlier papal condemnations. The Council of Florence in 1439 forced a false union upon the East under threat of geopolitical annihilation, but the East rejected it through the steadfast witness of St. Mark of Ephesus. When Constantinople fell in 1453, Rome&#8217;s failure to defend the city confirmed its strategic priorities lay not with defending Christendom, but with preserving and advancing its own institutional interests. The creation of Eastern Catholic Uniate structures institutionalized internal subversion by enticing or coercing Orthodox populations to accept papal supremacy while retaining outward forms of their tradition. This process fractured communities and created centuries of bitterness and instability. Meanwhile, Rome&#8217;s silence in the face of genocides against Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman and Soviet eras further demonstrated its unwillingness to defend those outside submission to papal rule.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IEsR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a1e4379-88e1-492a-9207-fd9bcc849379_750x739.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IEsR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a1e4379-88e1-492a-9207-fd9bcc849379_750x739.png 424w, 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The Vatican II affirmation that non-Christian religions participate in salvific truth stands in contrast to Rome&#8217;s continued insistence that the Orthodox must submit to papal supremacy before reunion can occur. This reveals not a pursuit of unity, but the maintenance of ecclesiastical hegemony.</p><p>The cumulative record demonstrates a consistent pattern of doctrinal innovation, fraternal betrayal, and institutional self-preservation. True reconciliation demands the restoration of the apostolic and conciliar order that characterized the first millennium&#8212;a reality the Vatican has now acknowledged once existed and was later replaced. Until Rome repents of its medieval reconstruction of the Church, renounces unilateral supremacy, and returns to conciliar accountability, unity remains impossible. From both an American and an Orthodox perspective, genuine brotherhood requires shared governance, integrity of tradition, and fidelity to the truth&#8212;not submission to a man-centered hierarchy justified by the ambitions of the Gregorian Revolution.</p><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST.</p><p>This week we will be featuring two documentaries on Auschwitz: </p><ul><li><p>David Cole&#8217;s &#8220;<em>David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper</em>&#8221;</p></li><li><p>&amp; &#8220;<em>Auschwitz: The Surprising Hidden Truth&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Recently I came across a publication run by a former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), a militant extremist group of Negroes that was founded by Huey P. Newton in 1966. In a video titled &#8220;<em><strong><a href="https://formerblackpantherspeaks.substack.com/p/a-former-black-panther-speaks-can">A Former Black Panther Speaks: Can America Be Saved?</a></strong>,</em>&#8221; the former member laments on the political situation that &#8220;<em>Americans</em>&#8221; are forced to undergo. He believes that America can still be &#8220;<em>saved</em>,&#8221; if Americans come together to support non-violent actions against government agencies that in his view are harming Americans. </p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-X3mIzBzK_F8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;X3mIzBzK_F8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;96s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/X3mIzBzK_F8?start=96s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><h3>What is an American?</h3><p>First, we have to address who he means by &#8220;<em>Americans</em>.&#8221; When the average person uses the term American today, they mean to include anyone that is a citizen of the United States of America or someone who was born here. They never mean anyone outside that definition and there certainly isn&#8217;t any racial undertones. However, what if I told you that is there clear definition of what an American actually is?</p><p>According to the Naturalization Act of 1790: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>That any Alien being a <strong>free white person</strong>, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof...</em>&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>This was the first federal legislation to define who could be an American and what an American was. </p><p>The the definition was still the same in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, stating the following:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In this, Lincoln references the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson. In Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s 1821 Autobiography, he adds clarity on what &#8220;<em>all men are created equal</em>&#8221; means and what an American is:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degree, as that the evil will wear off insensibly; and their place be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>While Jefferson did not support slavery, he still believed that Americans were in fact White and that Negroes should be deported. Jefferson also mentions the term pari passu, which is Latin for &#8220;<em>on equal footing</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>with an equal step</em>.&#8221; This is important because Jefferson is stating that the occupations filled by Negroes, must be replaced by &#8220;<em>free white laborers</em>&#8221; as Negro laborers are deported on equal footing. His words &#8220;<em>If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect help up</em>.&#8221; alludes to what George Lincoln Rockwell talks about in his posthumously published book, &#8220;<em>White Power:&#8221;</em> Race War. </p><p>Continuing with Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address, he states:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom&#8212;and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Noah Webster&#8217;s 1828 dictionary noted that &#8220;<em>nation</em>&#8221; originally denoted &#8220;<em>a family or race of men descended from a common progenitor, like tribe</em>.&#8221; So Lincoln is referring to one Christian race of people that will free the slaves and that the government of the Christian race which is comprised of that specific Christian race, in particular, representative of them, will work towards that Christian race&#8217;s prosperity, and shall never perish, so long as the nation doesn&#8217;t perish. </p><p>This stems from Daniel Webster&#8217;s 1830 Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne during the Webster&#8211;Hayne debate, where he stated:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>...the people&#8217;s Constitution, the people&#8217;s Government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Again, we see that Americans are defined by the Founding Fathers&#8217; idea of what an American is, what the American government is compromised of, what the American government endeavors towards, and whom they answerable to: free white people. </p><p>Now that the definition on what an American is, we can proceed.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Illegal Occupation</h3><p>The crux of the former BPP member&#8217;s argument is that governmental agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with accompanying governmental agencies, are tearing apart families in America by force and are entering communities like &#8220;<em>an occupying force.</em>&#8221;</p><p>However, what he refuses to acknowledge is that they have a legal and moral right to operate in the way that they are operating. The families that he states are being torn apart, are in fact not legal citizens of the United States. In fact, they are actually the occupying force in those communities. They have no legal standing as far as their civic citizenship goes and they are not Americans. Even if we were to use the civic definition of an American, which is still wrong, the invaders have no legal standing. </p><p>This man contends that:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>when a government begins to treat its own people as a problem to be controlled&#8230;it is drifting away from democracy&#8230;towards something far more dangerous. History has a term for that: autocracy</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>There are three things to note here:</p><ol><li><p>This aren&#8217;t our people, even by a civic definition of American.</p></li><li><p>The American government was never a democracy, nor did the Founding Fathers want a democracy. They built a Constitutional Republic. </p></li><li><p>Autocracy is not defined by a government treating its own people as a problem to be controlled. </p></li></ol><p>Autocracy comes from the Ancient Greek <em>auto</em> (Greek: &#945;&#8016;&#964;&#972;&#962;; &#8220;<em>self</em>&#8221;) and <em>kratos</em> (Greek: &#954;&#961;&#940;&#964;&#959;&#962;; &#8220;<em>power, might</em>&#8221;). The earliest autocracies such as chiefdoms, formed where there was previously no centralized government.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> The initial development of autocracies is attributed to its efficiency over anarchy,  which defined as a &#8220;<em>stateless society,</em>&#8221; as it provides security and negates internal divisions. Going back to Noah Webster&#8217;s 1828 dictionary definition of nation, &#8220;<em>a family or race of men descended from a common progenitor, like tribe</em>,&#8221; we see the term &#8220;<em>tribe</em>&#8221; being used. This is important because in Western Civilization, chiefs or chieftains reigned over a tribe (nation) to form a chiefdom (an autocratic government of that nation). </p><p>Essentially what the man is saying is this: </p><blockquote><p>&#8216;<em>when a national government begins to treat outsiders who are foreign to that nation, but reside within the homeland of that nation and pretend to be part of that nation as a problem to be controlled&#8230;it is drifting away from a foreign occupied government that I as a foreign entity can participate in and even control&#8230;towards something far more dangerous to me. History has a term for that nation&#8217;s natural state: autocracy</em>.&#8217;</p></blockquote><p>He continues in the video with the following: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>A government that uses fear and force at home to terrify communities, is no longer acting as a servant of the people. And when institutions stop serving the people, the people must reassert control</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Despite my disdain for the Trump administration, no one can rightfully deny that he was not elected by popular demand to implement mass deportations. That is a fact. He is failing on all accounts, but the fact still stands. </p><p>So, this is what the man is really saying:</p><blockquote><p>&#8216;<em>A government whose founding principles and beliefs I am foreign to, is using the will of the people it rightfully represents with a popular mandate to stop acting for the people it doesn&#8217;t comprise of or represent. And when institutions stop representing foreign interests, the foreign people must reassert control over the native people</em>.&#8217;</p></blockquote><p>The man continues: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Here&#8217;s what many Americans have forgotten. The Black Panther Party and the Civil Rights movement did not create change by actioning. They did not just march to be marching. We organized, we coordinated, we focused pressure&#8230;every protest had a target. You must have a target. Every action must have a demand</em>. <em>You&#8217;re marching because there is something that you want and you expect to get it because of your participation in the march&#8230;and expecting that the government is going to provide it</em>.&#8221; </p></blockquote><p>Clearly the demands are for Americans to allow more foreigners to reside within our own homeland. This man&#8217;s call to action is to organize, coordinate, and focus on particular targets, because to them the government (White people) need to provide it. </p><h3>WE ARE THE TARGET!</h3><p>The target isn&#8217;t just ICE, but it&#8217;s the American people that ICE represents. The target is <strong>us</strong>. If we don&#8217;t give in to their demands, they send in sacrificial lambs such as Rene Good and Alex Pretti to further their agenda. They amp these people up with their rhetoric and then turn them loose on the enforcement arm of the people. </p><p>The man continues: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>So we targeted police departments. We targeted courts. We targeted city halls and we also targeted businesses that was directly involved in the injustice that we felt was been inflicted upon us. We staged sit-ins, organized, planned&#8230;we staged stand-ins, organized, planned&#8230;we had boycotts to stop commerce. Every march, every protest, must have an ajective. And you must be focused on that ajective&#8230;and you must have strategy to achieve that ajective. If you don&#8217;t have any strategy, you don&#8217;t have a plan&#8230;so you&#8217;re just planning to fail. But everything that you do, everything that you protest, every time that you march, it must be non-violent. If it&#8217;s not non-violent, you just creating chaos. You just making noise</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>The BPP began its operation by copwatching, which they would do by following police around while armed with loaded firearms. They claimed it was their constitutional right to do so. All it was really was an intimidation tactic. This is the same organization that created the slogan, &#8220;<em>The Revolution has come, it&#8217;s time to pick up the gun. Off the pigs</em>!&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>The same amendment that they hid behind was the same amendment that they attacked through their &#8220;<em>non-violent</em>&#8221; means.</p><p>In 1967 they protested at the California State Capitol. On that day, the California State Assembly Committee on Criminal Procedure was scheduled to convene to discuss what was known as the &#8220;<em>Mulford Act</em>,&#8221; which would make the public carrying of loaded firearms illegal. Newton, with Eldridge Cleaver, sent 26 armed Panthers led by Seale from Oakland to Sacramento to protest the bill. The group entered the assembly carrying their weapons, an incident which was widely publicized, and which prompted police to arrest Seale and five others. The group pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of disrupting a legislative session.<sup> </sup>After that, the Mulford Act was passed by the California legislature and signed by Governor Ronald Reagan. The bill was crafted in response to members of the BPP who were copwatching. The bill repealed a law that allowed the public carrying of loaded firearms.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>The BPP created the problem through intimidation and then when the bill was being voted on, they made sure that it would pass. This was not a law that would effect these roving bands of armed Negroes, but only Americans. They were criminals and they knew that only law abiding Americans would follow the letter of the law. This is how they operate. They pretend to be non-violent until they are able to disarm you, then they will try to kill you. Just like how Rene Good tried to kill that ICE agent with her car or how Alex Pretti tried to pull a gun on Border Patrol agents. </p><p>During this man&#8217;s time with the BPP from 1967-1971, the BPP committed several violent crimes. Here are a list of some of the violent actions that the Black Panthers undertook:</p><ul><li><p>The 1969 torture and murder of Alex Rackley, a 19-year-old New York BPP chapter member suspected of being a police informant.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p><ul><li><p>Rackley was held captive in a New Haven, Connecticut, apartment where he was tied to a chair, beaten, scalded with boiling water, and left bound to a bed in his own waste for days. After, he was driven to a swamp and shot in the head and chest by fellow Panthers Warren Kimbro and Lonnie McLucas, under orders from George Sams Jr.</p><ul><li><p>Here&#8217;s the kicker&#8230;he wasn&#8217;t a police informant. These animals just wanted to kill him. </p></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p>Huey P. Newton&#8217;s 1967 shootout that killed Oakland police officer John Frey (Newton was initially convicted of manslaughter, later overturned), despite having admitted to doing it.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p></li><li><p>In 1968, the Black Panther Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver orchestrated an ambush on Oakland police, wounding two officers and leading to the death of 17-year-old Panther Bobby Hutton. At the time the BPP claimed that the police had ambushed them, several party members later admitted that Cleaver had led the Panther group on a deliberate ambush of the police officers, provoking the shoot-out.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a></p></li><li><p>1969, Los Angeles Panther captain Bunchy Carter and deputy minister John Huggins were killed in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus, in a gun battle with members of the US Organization, a rival militant Negro organization.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a></p></li></ul><p>There&#8217;s more instances of violent actions, but you get the point. The BPP wasn&#8217;t just violent, it was also a Marxist organization. In fact, almost all of the organizations that pushed for &#8220;<em>Civil Rights</em>,&#8221; were Marxist. All of the BPP members and so-called &#8220;<em>Civil Rights</em>&#8221; leaders were either kikes or kike-washed niggers. They got their so-called rights at the expense of ours. This is our country, not theirs. They don&#8217;t belong here and if I had my way, I would ship their asses back off to Liberia. </p><p>It&#8217;s real Americans versus kikes and niggers. Unfortunately only a small number of Whites can even see it. The rest are just blind. </p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST. Last Saturday we featured the great 1941 German propaganda film, <em>Sieg Im Westen</em> (Victory in the West).</p><p>This week&#8217;s Saturday Blockbuster will feature <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em> by Truth Nuke<strong> </strong>and a surprise double feature. The screening takes place on Telegram and is free of charge.</p><p>Join us Saturday 8 pm EST as we watch the first film adaptation of Julius Streicher&#8217;s <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em>.</p><p>Enjoy the official trailer for <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em>!</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c0e5f680-b639-437c-805c-108c72ae2a70&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8b26c60f-a972-4bcb-8b49-887a95d03a21_1333x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/58f3aeef-0cd0-499d-88df-f54f59dc546f_1333x2000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fc19c26c-eb1e-4e8b-93ba-7b7d9ef25a36_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was needed:</p><ul><li><p>The official version from Rockwell&#8217;s own party was poorly formatted.</p></li><li><p>There was a ton of missing context.</p></li><li><p>It was clearly edited to add bias or reference events that took place after Rockwell was killed.</p></li></ul><p>So of we fixed those issues.</p><p>Our new edition includes:</p><ul><li><p>Clean, readable typesetting</p></li><li><p>Restored original text</p></li><li><p>Fair historical context</p></li><li><p>An updated forward</p></li><li><p>Over 40 pages of endnotes</p></li><li><p>Brand new cover art</p></li><li><p>Hyperlinks for easy navigation (PDF only)</p></li><li><p>6&#8221;x9&#8221; Hardcover and Paperback options</p></li></ul><p>The new edition is available now:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=I4OHiJbUI8Z4sozd0yR5S9aZasrBaITWyWKV4reuYWK&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Hardcover ($30)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=I4OHiJbUI8Z4sozd0yR5S9aZasrBaITWyWKV4reuYWK"><span>Hardcover ($30)</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=LCX6sD0DDrUmFJ8coiHUrbewGAvAwIxylQgB9yUieEs&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Paperback ($20)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=LCX6sD0DDrUmFJ8coiHUrbewGAvAwIxylQgB9yUieEs"><span>Paperback ($20)</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://t.me/fifth_column_library/302&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Free PDF&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library/302"><span>Free PDF</span></a></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Earle, Timothy K. (1997). <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/howchiefscometop0000earl">How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory</a></em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>David Farber. <em>The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s</em>. p. 207.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Pearson, Hugh (1994). <em>The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America</em>. Da Capo Press.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2019/05/20/50_years_after_murder_panther_/">New Haven Independent. 50 Years Later, Panther Murder Echoes.</a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Pearson, Hugh (1994). <em>The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America</em>. pp. 7, 221</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Kate Coleman, 1980, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723044742/http://colemantruth.net/kate1.pdf">"Souled Out: Eldridge Cleaver Admits He Ambushed Those Cops"</a> <em>New West Magazine</em>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Brown, Elaine. <em>A Taste of Power: A Black Woman&#8217;s Story.</em> (New York: Doubleday, 1992) p. 184</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours Is A Christian Movement]]></title><description><![CDATA["I will be able to look up and see the sweet little White boys and girls once again playing in a White, Christian, decent, safe and wholesome America." -George Lincoln Rockwell]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/ours-is-a-christian-movement</link><guid 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Commander George Lincoln Rockwell</figcaption></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>I reread and studied it some more. Slowly, bit by bit, I began to understand. I realized that National Socialism, the iconoclastic worldview of Adolf Hitler, was the doctrine of scientific, racial idealism&#8212;actually a new &#8216;religion&#8217; for our times. I saw that I was living in the age of the rise of what, two thousand years ago, was similar to the rise of a new &#8220;approach&#8221; or worldview called a &#8216;religion&#8217;&#8212;a worldview which shook and changed the world forever. I realized that this new and wonderful doctrine of scientific truth applied ruthlessly to man himself, as well as to nature and inanimate matter, was the only thing which could save man from his own degradation in luxury, self-seeking shortsightedness and racial degeneration. The doctrine of Adolf Hitler was the new &#8216;Christianity&#8217; of our times, and Adolf Hitler himself was the new &#8216;savior&#8217; sent recurrently to a collapsing humanity by inscrutable Providence. Hitler&#8217;s and Germany&#8217;s &#8216;crucifixion&#8217; was all according to the inevitable workings of this unknowable Scenarist. Even the eleven disciples at Nuremberg were not without significance! The most hated and dreaded idea two thousand years ago was Christianity, and the most hated and cursed man on earth was Jesus Christ. His followers were bitterly persecuted and murdered by &#8216;good,&#8217; &#8216;sensible&#8217; people&#8212;who could see that anybody in his right mind recognized Rome and the Empire as the solid, substantial thing in the world. I realized that today&#8217;s Marxist-Democratic world is another sprawling &#8216;Roman Empire,&#8217; and today&#8217;s Nazis the early &#8216;Christians.&#8217; What is going on is far more than a battle for political supremacy in the present social and political situation&#8212;it is the utter smashing and destruction of a society which has become so rotten that it will tolerate and even love its own Marxist destroyers&#8212;and the painful slow growth of the new Nazi society which will replace it, even though it is now the most &#8216;hated,&#8217; despised and feared doctrine on earth&#8212;as Christianity once was</em>.&#8221;</p><p>-George Lincoln Rockwell</p></blockquote><p>For Rockwell, National Socialism was even a form of substitute Christianity. It entered his life in the void that Christianity had once filled.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I closed the blinds, lit the candles and stood before my new altar. For the first time since I had lost my Christian religion, I experienced the soul-thrilling upsurge of emotion which is denied to our modern, sterile, atheist &#8216;intellectuals&#8217; but which literally moved the earth for countless centuries: &#8216;religious experience.&#8217;&#8221; </em></p><p>-George Lincoln Rockwell</p></blockquote><p>An idea that springs naturally from Rockwell&#8217;s observations: If National Socialism is in the same place today that Christianity was 2,000 years ago, might the same tactics of the early Christians be used to give us victory?</p><p>I believe the answer is yes.</p><p>What can we learn from the success of Christianity, and how can it be applied to our movement?</p><p>The first key to Christianity&#8217;s success is its weaponization of non-violence. Christians respected state power (&#8220;Render unto Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s&#8221;). The Christian martyrs submitted, as Jesus did, to the authorities when it was time for their crucifixion, burning alive, or being eaten by wild beasts. They took the punishment and allowed it to backfire on sympathetic citizens of Rome. Rather than serve as a deterrent, statue persecution served to broadcast the strength of their testimony like a beacon across the Empire.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HP8A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46faf9e9-e846-41d1-a758-550ad6816a1e_736x855.jpeg" width="534" height="620.3396739130435" 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Thomas Sewell is repeatedly jailed for his activism work in Australia. And by all accounts, his organization, the National Socialist Network is growing faster and has more mainstream political influence than the mainline Nationalist Organizations of the United States. His compatriot, Jacob Hersant, adopted the same tactic when he intentionally became the first person to be arrested for the Roman Salute as soon as it became illegal in New South Wales. Imagine seeking out arrest!</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp" width="474" height="266" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:266,&quot;width&quot;:474,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4720,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/i/187403418?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MYG8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd76da01-1892-4488-b920-5341aab5f1d0_474x266.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Thomas Sewell</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In England, though not very close to our own views, Tommy Robinson has likewise emerged as a popular right-wing leader. And the years he has spent in prison as a result of political persecution by the state &#8211; rather than dampening his movement, has inflamed it. When we see a man go to jail for what he believes, we see a man who is strong, a man we can envision following.</p><p>We can contrast the success of these movements with the failure of decidedly non-Christian groups like Atomwaffen. Groups who use violence to achieve their aims (or even talk about violence!) attract feds, give those feds ammunition to shut them down, turn the public against them, and achieve nothing. A Christian ethos protects us from falling into the kinds of traps that can destroy a group before it gets off the ground.</p><p>There&#8217;s a tendency from those on our side to want to use violence because &#8220;<em>violence works</em>,&#8221; but this looks to me more like justification for emotional catharsis, born of anger. Tarrant and Bowers did not accomplish anything as far as I can tell, while the great political victories of the 20th century were accomplished through non-violence. India&#8217;s liberation from the British Empire under Gandhi, the Jewish-led civil rights movement for African Americans. Savitri Devi explained why these tactics work, calling them &#8220;<em>moral violence</em>.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QcMG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F397650ba-2788-4a74-8e37-8426e43d3d53_225x300.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QcMG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F397650ba-2788-4a74-8e37-8426e43d3d53_225x300.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QcMG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F397650ba-2788-4a74-8e37-8426e43d3d53_225x300.jpeg 848w, 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It may look &#8216;nobler.&#8217; In fact, it is just the same&#8212;apart from the difference in the technique of pressure. It is, rather, less &#8216;noble&#8217; because, precisely on account of that subtler technique, it leads people to believe that it is not violence, and therefore contains an element of deceit, an inherent falsehood, from which ordinary violence is free.&#8221;</em> </p><p>-Savitri Devi</p></blockquote><p>As an aside, part of the reason that the American far right feels behind the rest of the Anglosphere is, I believe, that our government tolerates free speech and refuses to make martyrs of us. When it does apply pressure, it does so through back-channels such as internet censorship or getting people fired. Because this isn&#8217;t understood as state oppression, it fails to garner sympathy.</p><p>A second reason that Christianity spread in Rome is its function as a parallel society. It cared for its sick, its downtrodden. It made its best men better through the practice of charity. It promoted group survival through plagues and famines, and converted those who had experienced its blessings firsthand.</p><p>By building parallel systems, the early Christians did not need to infiltrate government posts to impose their religion on the masses&#8212;rather they spread throughout the masses and then naturally trickled their way into the government.</p><p>There are many attempts at right-wing parallel systems in our time. Billy Roper&#8217;s <em>Ozarkia</em>, Aarvoll&#8217;s <em>Return To The Land</em>, <em>Gab </em>dot com, and to a lesser extent, Musk&#8217;s <em>Twitter</em>. These parallel systems have already worked wonders for us, but we have so few. We need many more and new kinds&#8212;physical, digital, religious, etc. Small businesses selling basic supplies as well as social networks as well as new churches. When branded as &#8220;<em>uncensored</em>,&#8221; or &#8220;<em>free speech platforms,</em>&#8221; such systems often win the sympathies of the masses right away.</p><p>Thirdly, Christianity was intolerant. To be a Christian meant rejection of Paganism and immoral practices. A group&#8217;s intolerance of mainstream society is what prevents it from being reabsorbed and disintegrated. National Socialists, when we tribe up, must reject immoral and degenerate behavior, thus forming a clear demarcation between us and them&#8212;and at the same time helping our brothers live better and more fruitful lives by surrounding them with virtuous kamaraden rather than contagious degeneracy.</p><p>A fourth reason Christianity spread is its emphasis on missionary activity. Our National Socialist organizations understand this principle well, and follow it by producing propaganda, distributing it to curious minds, and talking to people we might be able to bring to our cause.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Following the winning tactics of the early Christians is a start if we are to win from our present circumstances. But there is one thing left for us to do. We must become Christlike ourselves, so that we can endure the abuse society will inflict upon us with dignity, so that we can preach relentlessly without complaint, so that we can lead with grace and without judgment, so that we can freely forgive our brothers, so that we can reject worldly wealth and follow the light and the truth. We must pray. We must attend church where we can find one not too infected by ZOG. We must keep the savior Jesus Christ in our hearts and minds, and his father, and the holy spirit.</p><p>Mein Kampf is my worldly scripture. The Gospel is my heavenly scripture. With these two texts, we can win the world entire.</p><p>Ave Christus Rex</p><p>Heil Hitler</p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Important Announcements</strong></h1><h3><strong>Saturday Blockbuster!</strong></h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong></em> in conjunction with <em><strong><a href="https://t.me/fifth_column_library">Fifth Column Library</a></strong></em> is screening films relevant to our struggle each Saturday night at 8 pm EST. Last Saturday we featured the great 1941 German propaganda film, <em>Sieg Im Westen</em> (Victory in the West).</p><p>This week&#8217;s Saturday Blockbuster will feature <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em> by Truth Nuke<strong> </strong>and a surprise double feature. The screening takes place on Telegram and is free of charge.</p><p>Join us Saturday 8 pm EST as we watch the first film adaptation of Julius Streicher&#8217;s <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em>.</p><p>Enjoy the official trailer for <em>The Poisonous Mushroom</em>!</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e076734c-b10d-4e35-a68b-a904282b6630&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h3><strong>White Power</strong></h3><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6adc037-70bb-4133-940c-bba26f8c6d37_1333x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c614f3e3-a030-497f-a7dc-94b2bb12b9c6_1333x2000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4119213b-bb71-4d24-970b-4462f2f3a2e9_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The definitive edition of <strong><a href="https://fifthcolumnlibrary.substack.com/p/white-power">White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell</a></strong> has just been published by Fifth Column Library.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why this new edition was needed:</p><ul><li><p>The 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>I happened to be perusing Substack today and I came across something interesting. Of course it wasn&#8217;t interesting in a good way, more of <em>&#8220; can&#8217;t believe you would you do that&#8221; </em>kind of way, but nevertheless it deserves attention and ridicule. So that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to be doing today. </p><p>Less than a month ago, Zach Kidd, a &#8220;<em>White Nationalist</em>&#8221; podcaster who runs the podcast, &#8220;<em>Logos</em>,&#8221; decided to start his journey on Substack. As any aspiring writer would do, he created a profile, a publication, and then chose a name for his publication. That name was Junkers and the first article he released on January 18th under this publication name started like this: </p><blockquote><p><em>Today, it does not take a genius to get the feeling that something is wrong. Everywhere we look around us things have changed; since we were children, since our parents were children. Most can feel this spiritual weight that has been dropped on our shoulders yet few can articulate where it comes from or why it is so damn heavy. This is the task of the Junkers; to clearly display where these problems come from and why they weigh so heavy upon us. Not only is it our duty to show our people the cause of their uneasiness but to guide them away from this feeling and give them a renewed sense of hope for a better way of life.</em></p></blockquote><p>Zach begins the article stating the obvious: something is wrong and we all know it, but few can define it. It&#8217;s a feeling that we all have. From the Greatest Generation to Generation Zyklon. All of us know that there is something terribly wrong with society in some way, but we all believe it&#8217;s something else. Of course, I and hopefully you, understand that the axiom of the problem is the Jewish Question. To us it is self-evident. This is of course what Zach is trying to say without actually saying it. </p><p>To hopefully push you in that direction he has chosen the name Junkers for his publication. Now, how many of you pronounced that with a &#8220;<em>Y</em>&#8221;? I guarantee almost none of you. So why has he decided to invoke the imagery of &#8220;<em>the noble class of distinguished Prussian gentlemen of resolute conviction and honor</em>.&#8221; Which you probably didn&#8217;t pick up on when you first read the name Junkers. His Twitter audience was also confused, because they&#8217;re primarily American and they don&#8217;t speak German. In German, the &#8220;<em>J</em>&#8221; is pronounced as a &#8220;<em>Y</em>,&#8221; so it&#8217;s actually pronounced &#8220;<em>YUNGKERS</em>.&#8221; </p><p>The majority of people that read <em>Junkers </em>will obviously think he is referring to Whites as junk. This is because in an American context it sounds like he&#8217;s referring to piece of shit cars. It&#8217;s completely foreign to us, and this is exactly what his audience on Twitter stated. </p><div><hr></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a28bd6fb-0b4f-415e-ac88-1832601b2491_610x788.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/718d3058-373c-4c61-827c-0d74439a9bec_604x522.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;His followers absolutely hate \&quot;Junkers.\&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46e403b8-082d-4bb8-a076-15ee2f6a13f2_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>But he doesn&#8217;t care what Aryans (Whites) want, because he doesn&#8217;t represent them. The Junkers were the old guard aristocracy of the German Empire. During the time of the Weimar Republic, they made an unlikely alliance with Adolf Hitler in order to advance their own agenda. They didn&#8217;t care about what the people wanted. They were the elitists. And this, the important thing to note about this name choice: it&#8217;s completely fitting for Zach Kidd to use. </p><p>The Junkers at first worked with the NSDAP until they felt like it was time for them to rule. At that point, they began to go against the National Socialist agenda and they even participated in assassination attempts. The most famous assassination attempt was carried out by the Junker, Claus von Stauffenberg in Operation Valkyrie. Most Americans will know that name because of the Tom Cruise movie. Choosing this name was a completely brain dead decision. It&#8217;s not relatable, it&#8217;s not contemporary, and it&#8217;s not uniquely American.  </p><p>Zach continues:</p><blockquote><p>We recognize this is no easy task, as We equally recognize that nothing truly good in this world comes easy. If we don&#8217;t take on the immense goal of awakening our people and saving them of their daily struggles, who will? It could not be more clear that our government has no interest in helping, nor does any government in all of Europe for that matter. They are far too concerned of the plight of foreigners who share none of our values and have no ethnic connection to the things we&#8217;ve built around us. Where does this leave us? Who else can help us? It is clear that we only have ourselves, and as the age old saying goes &#8220;if you want something done right, it is better to do it yourself&#8221;.</p></blockquote><p>I think it&#8217;s quite ironic that Zach speaks of &#8220;<em>our people</em>,&#8221; when he is so content to work with and promote Jews. For those that don&#8217;t know Zach, he has a close relationship with <strong><a href="https://t.me/HandsomeTruthExposed">Handsome Truth</a></strong>, a Jew that pretended to be a Christian. That was until he saw that Christians like myself were calling him out for being a secret Jew and a degenerate. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg" width="680" height="680" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:680,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsCL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c78cbe0-c53f-4aab-b3a4-b21e4807a5d3_680x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Handsome Truth, real name Jon Eugene Minadeo II, (Center) and Zach Kidd (Right).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>After that, he reverted to factory settings and started calling for the death of White Christians. Go figure.</p><div><hr></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2d89f8a0-42f6-4693-8c3d-71fd1ad1091e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>When I confronted Zach for their association, Zach doubled down. Before ultimately deleting his comment and blocking me on Twitter. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/403c2022-cf26-4603-a118-7557315b5921_576x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7c811e9f-953e-40fc-a794-5c67cd294c3f_576x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e94cc16e-6447-4752-899d-800dd333e1a9_576x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee01f0fb-6511-437c-93d7-6164253d352e_576x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0cf98520-94c2-49b0-970b-3cb1a7df2e45_576x1280.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/469aa33a-5c18-465a-bb3d-91dbdb7e4e71_576x1280.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;It's all an act.&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1c0593bc-686b-444e-85fd-200c307f9275_1456x964.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>He doesn&#8217;t care about our people, he cares about his wallet. </p><p>George Lincoln Rockwell once said:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A Conservative is one who wants to conserve his money, a National Socialist is one who wants to conserve his race.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Zach cares about being part of the perceived change while having not actually changed anything. He is by definition a Junker. It&#8217;s the perfect name for him. The Junkers were more than content to work with Jews if it got them what they wanted. At their core, they are political opportunists. Zach is no different.</p><p>Zach continues:</p><blockquote><p>Therefore We Junkers are taking the stand that few others are willing to take. Everyone amongst us recognizes the spirit of sacrifice that is required to regain a healthy way of life. Courage will be required to point out the blatant ills that lay in front of us, to challenge the cowardice of our current political parties who at every opportunity lie to us and put a blind fold over our faces in hopes to further keep us down so they may remain comfortable in their multi-million dollar mansions. Only through the strength of courage and will can we overcome an entire system hellbent on eradicating everything we hold dear; our culture, the great men of our history, our very way of life, our very own existence! All of it will be squashed and squandered if our current &#8220;leaders&#8221; are able to continue uncontested.</p><p>A Junker holds these things in high regard. A Junker is proud of the men of his past who laid the foundations of the very society he has the privilege to live in. A Junker loves the culture that has been produced from these great men, the magnificent structures erected from sheer passion, the inventions which raise our quality of life far above the Third World. Most importantly, a Junker recognizes that it is our people which are responsible for these achievements. We take pride in that fact that we were able to create such things and have no interest in allowing them to wither away in hopes to appease the emotions of those who could not care less about what we have given this world.</p></blockquote><p>Wow, that&#8217;s a lot of benign statements. </p><p>I have yet to hear a single policy prescription or platform be uttered. It&#8217;s almost as if they haven&#8217;t thought it out before making this bold declaration, &#8220;<em>The Junkers are here</em>!&#8221; </p><p>&#8216;<em>So what do you represent? Oh, the guys that tried to stall, stop and kill Hitler. Right, you&#8217;re the guys that are going to lead the way</em>.&#8217;</p><p>This honestly reminds me of when Cenk Uyghur was asked about the name the Young Turks, and he tried to claim that he chose that name for his news company, because they were revolutionary and idealistic. Right, it had nothing to do with fact that they committed the Armenian genocide. Bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off.  </p><p>Zach continues:</p><blockquote><p>Our highest conviction is the protection and guidance of our people. Anyone who cares about keeping our people healthy and secure is already on the path to being a Junker. However mere thoughts along do not make us who we are. Action is required. The action to not only go against the outside influences that are threatening our way of life, but also the action to go against ourselves. To look inwardly at our daily behaviors and habits and recognize how these foreign influences has poisoned and affected us. To revert those poisons and become the best version of ourselves once more. We cannot succeed without a healthy and vigorous people. Without the strength of will to fix oneself, no one will have the strength of will to fix the world around them.</p></blockquote><p>As Jordan Peterson said to the lobster, &#8220;<em>clean your bloody room bucko</em>.&#8221; Zach talks about &#8220;<em>foreign influences</em>&#8221; as if it&#8217;s a bad thing, but openly defends them when you call him out for actually supporting or using those &#8220;<em>foreign influences</em>.&#8221; </p><p>Zach continues:  </p><blockquote><p>This is the purpose of the Junker Substack. In this publication we will aid our people in the process of becoming a better version of themselves. This will entail learning of their history and where they come from (without the knowledge of who you are it is impossible to become the best version of you.), understanding the nature of our struggle and who our enemy is, learning how to connect and organize with those who share our state of mind, and realizing the path out of the horrible living standards our people have been relegated to. If any of this interests you, join us in this struggle. Subscribe to this Substack and become a part of this fight; we cannot do this alone.</p></blockquote><p>I swear, the whole time I was yawning while reading the article out loud. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because it was close to my bed time, or the fact that Zach can&#8217;t write anything interesting. The whole time while reading this I was thinking to myself how boring it was. Even if Zach was a moral and just man that actually wanted to uplift his people to prosperity, he would still be uninteresting. </p><p>Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Zach in his attempt to persuade the reader in this call to action has chiefly bored us. The whole article he says nothing of value. It&#8217;s the same stuff that we have heard time and time again. What separates the wheat from the chaff? Nothing has changed. Nothing is new. Nothing is exciting. What separates the wheat from the chaff? </p><p>When I came on the scene, I came out swinging with a revolutionary idea that was new to the movement. If we wanted to not only survive, but thrive, we needed to create a parallel economy/society. We must be self-sufficient and totally independent on the institutions that do not serve us. We need our own currency, our own traditions, our own Churches, and our own way of life again. </p><p>I have been in the or around the movement since 2012. I&#8217;m 30 now and it wasn&#8217;t until I came on the scene where people began to adopt my mentality. And now people like Zach are losing out. The movement is becoming predominantly Christian and marketable to the average joe. This is in counter to their spiritually Jewish worldview. </p><p>But maybe the next article that they put out is invigorating and insightful&#8230;</p><p>On January 21st, Zach enlisted the help of the &#8220;<em>political philosopher</em>&#8221; <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jake Leone&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:242212380,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e64c8e57-1862-47a8-9a21-186406ca60c9_1281x1281.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1f88bcaa-fb2b-4aec-a124-1d6416157807&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> to write a truly groundbreaking article that would wake the masses up from their slumber: <strong><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-185356928">An Opening Essay on Etiquette. </a></strong></p><p>Yes, exactly what we need. An article on European etiquette being &#8220;<em>the subordination of impulse to the context of the circumstances at hand for the betterment of all,</em>&#8221;&#8230;by a Jew.</p><p>For those that don&#8217;t know, I wrote a whole <strong><a href="https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/volume-ii-chapter-v-the-man-behind">article</a></strong> on this guy. Jake Leone is married to a Romanian woman who immigrated to the United States and took on the surname Levin. Which she got from a man she lived with, Reid Levin, who is a Jew. How do you think she got the last name Levin? Do you think she lied on her paperwork or do you think she married Reid? It wouldn&#8217;t be out of the ordinary for Jake to marry a Jew, seeing that he also has 3 family members in his extended family that are Jewish. The odds of that happening are roughly 1 in 70k - 80k. </p><p>Not to mention, his great-uncle Anthony was a commercial lender for one of the largest banks in the world, the Bank of New York. His uncle Christopher Leone is a Hollywood producer and Jake&#8217;s father, Andrew, is an engineer that hires H1-B visas. Seriously, you can&#8217;t make this shit up. </p><p>Knowing this information while reading the following, &#8220;<em>a nation&#8217;s etiquette would be a requirement under the National Socialist perspective as the alternative would be the acceptance of the foreign or the deterioration of order and cohesion</em>,&#8221; is like you seeing a parallel dimension after a flashbang filled with irony hits you&#8230;</p><p>&#8220;<em>I can&#8217;t hear anything but the ringing in my ears. I think they&#8217;re bleeding. All I can see is white. This must be heaven.  But, what&#8217;s that in the distance&#8230;.is that fucking Yakub</em>?&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s the most ridiculous thing that I have ever read. And for these two, it&#8217;s completely on brand. Try to blend in and hope that you can get as much money and clout as possible before anyone is the wiser. Unfortunately for them, that&#8217;s not going to happen here. My whole existence is to protect my people from those that would do them harm. It&#8217;s a vow I took before God and these two hate me for it. </p><p>The last article that the Junkers published was on January 25th by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Norman Eckart&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:246410676,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GdG-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d4af7a7-8353-4aab-9e40-e1b8fc14e46f_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;30795db5-1b7f-4ce6-9703-bd4dac7e8d57&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and it&#8217;s titled <em>The Path to Power</em>. I don&#8217;t know who Norman is because I haven&#8217;t conversed with or debated him before, but his article is essentially offering a guide to those who want power. In it&#8217;s essence, it is very Machiavellian and it references the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, among others. </p><p>Ultimately, the article isn&#8217;t bad. However, the people promoting it take away from the value of the lesson. They end up adding a new meaning: you should want power and influence through deception. </p><p>It actually reminds me of the final section of my most popular article:</p><div><hr></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;295315dc-37ff-48c3-832a-5277bfd4b773&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;For decades the Jews were able to suppress information that would lead to the Aryans waking up. However, with the mixture of their eternal hubris and vainglory, intertwined with the invention of the internet, they have slowly lost their grip on the narrative control they once held so firmly. And now it has begun to come down so swiftly, so suddenly, tha&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;We're in the Great Noticing, It's Almost Over.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:288323927,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ardito&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Owner of Arditi Magazine and Imperator of the New Way. Ave Christus Rex. &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7dfe4358-c1b6-4e1e-9e35-d3fb6829bb91_186x186.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-08-04T23:34:54.646Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DyD1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b26855a-7d11-4d0a-8149-a5addbc61cb9_900x360.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/were-in-the-great-noticing-its-almost&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:170134020,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:231,&quot;comment_count&quot;:59,&quot;publication_id&quot;:3375458,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Arditi&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tcYy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bf9b5dd-13eb-4e06-b970-8bdb084fff32_500x500.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The final section is titled <em><strong>Beware the Wolves in Sheepskins </strong></em>and it goes like this:</p><blockquote><p><em>The Great Noticing is upon us, but so few actually want to use this momentum to propel our people to prosperity. More often than not, they would use this golden opportunity to capitalize on fundraising opportunities for their own personal gain, their wallet, their own advancement. They would have you believe that they would support the righteous cause of all Aryans, but in secret they hide their true intentions.</em></p><p><em>For the casual person, or layman, they would not notice the deceit that is under the surface. For the more experienced person or the more well rounded National Socialist, the deceit would be obvious. And the greatest example that I can bring up is the association of Aryans that claim to be National Socialists with non-Aryans.</em></p><p><em>When asked why these supposed National Socialists associate with non-Aryans, they claim it is because they need to reach a wider audience or else our movement would die. They also make an excuse as to brush away the obvious. These people are not National Socialists, but they are identifying with the National Socialist movement in America and abroad to gain notoriety. This is for their own personal benefit and furthering of financial opportunities, so they can feed into their materialistic temptations. These are not true National Socialists, nor are they allies to the cause. Many of them aren&#8217;t even Aryans.</em></p><p><em>This is a subject for another time, but I will leave you with this: be wary of those who claim to be Aryans but associate with non-Aryans for more exposure and notoriety. So often I am told that I divide people, that I am taking from the movement and halting the unification our race.</em></p><p><em>The truth is, those who claim unification at any cost care not for the quality or morality of the Aryan, but for the quantity. And why would the care only for the number of Aryans that follow them and not for the quality and morality of the Aryan that follows them? It&#8217;s quite simple, but I will leave that question unanswered so you determine on your own as you continue your journey in the Great Noticing.</em></p><p><em>The Great Noticing is upon us, and the genuine curiosity of the Aryan must be nurtured and the general inquiry must be allowed to question everything. Beware those that say trust me without question or explanation. Those that wish you well would never keep the wool over your eyes. I do not expect you to blindly trust me, I do expect you to at least entertain my ideas, but ultimately the decision on whether you follow me is up to you.</em></p></blockquote><p>The whole creation of the Junkers is akin to a modern day Operation Valkyrie. They want to kill National Socialism in the cradle while assuming its role as the successor. We all know that the only worldview that can contend with International Jewry is National Socialism. This is just them trying to snuff out the innovators, the moral, and the strong. </p><p>I have no doubt they will ignore this article and continue their work. If they were to address it, they would have to try and counter my points, which they would ultimately lose. It&#8217;s why Jake and Zach have blocked me on Twitter. They can&#8217;t stop what is coming. </p><div><hr></div><h1>Important Announcements</h1><h3>White Sober Recovery</h3><p>Every Thursday at 6 pm EST, <strong><a href="https://t.me/the_new_way_national_socialist">The New Way</a></strong> livestreams <em>White Sober Recovery</em>, a show focused on helping addicts get clean and stay clean. To quote Zach Kidd: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>We cannot succeed without a healthy and vigorous people</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Instead of just talking about how we should do something, we actually are. 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Hame&#231;on]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/culture-bearers-in-soldiers-boots</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/culture-bearers-in-soldiers-boots</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ardito]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:01:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UgvE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37d70e8d-e47f-41dd-be55-024e8d8764c0_640x445.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UgvE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37d70e8d-e47f-41dd-be55-024e8d8764c0_640x445.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Become a paid subscriber and enjoy our care package system. $25/month gets you a printed magazine copy, stickers, and an exclusive pamphlet.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Democracy has always eagerly made use of the soldier&#8217;s boot as a symbol of the soldier and of the military state of mind. The many caricatures showing a coarse boot, trampling everything underfoot with ruthless brutality and mercilessly crushing whatever lies beneath its iron-studded sole, are still well known to us all. This image was perhaps most vividly realized in the Soviet-Russian film Battleship Potemkin, released some years ago. In one of its scenes, the entire screen is filled with rows of soldiers&#8217; boots, descending the broad steps leading down to the harbor of Odessa in a terrifyingly uniform rhythm. For a long time, one sees nothing but these boots, rising and stamping down again in perfect unison.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gulE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62d12123-9d4b-4dde-9140-0e059a196abc_1049x829.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gulE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62d12123-9d4b-4dde-9140-0e059a196abc_1049x829.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gulE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62d12123-9d4b-4dde-9140-0e059a196abc_1049x829.png 848w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>When this image finally disappears, the nerve-wracking cadence continues to echo, and before these symbols of violence and oppression we see the fleeing masses &#8212; men, women, and children alike. This scene, from that deeply suggestive film, is so immediate in its effect that for a long time afterward the viewer cannot help but associate soldiers&#8217; boots with violence.</p><p>This, of course, was the aim of that democratic caricature: the soldier&#8217;s boot crushed everything that made life beautiful, even the most sacred things. Thus, soldierdom and culture were set against one another as two irreconcilable opposites.</p><p>How does the SS stand in relation to this?</p><p>The SS is an organization built upon military foundations; all of us wear the soldier&#8217;s boot. Practically all its members stand, in these very moments as the military decision draws ever closer, in the ranks of the Waffen-SS. At the same time, the SS has always stood as a bulwark for the protection and defense of our cultural values and has proven that it does everything within its power to promote art and science. In this regard, we need only point to the scholarly conferences it has held, the exhibitions it has organized, and the archaeological excavations carried out by personal order of the Reichsf&#252;hrer-SS himself. To this end, he also founded the research society Das Ahnenerbe.</p><div><hr></div><h4>Von Clausewitz on War</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp" width="416" height="517.5625" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:637,&quot;width&quot;:512,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:416,&quot;bytes&quot;:36780,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/177296565?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W7K5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4773fa6c-c11e-4a7e-8861-3dc01547ec06_512x637.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In our understanding, therefore, there is no opposition between culture and soldierdom. What, then, is the true relationship between these two concepts for us?</p><p>To understand, therefore, what it means to be a soldier, we must first and foremost make clear to ourselves what is meant by war. For it is only war that grants to soldiery its highest consecration. The classical theorist and philosopher of war is General Carl von Clausewitz, who, in his work <em>Vom Kriege</em> (On War), grasped and explained the deeper meaning of war in an unsurpassed manner.</p><p>In the first book of that work, <em>&#220;ber die Natur des Krieges</em> (On the Nature of War), von Clausewitz gives the following definition:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>War is thus an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In this formulation, the goal, the means, and the deeper motivating factor of the concept of war are clearly and precisely defined. At first sight, this definition seems fully to justify the opposition drawn by democrats and pacifists. For indeed, the imposition of one&#8217;s own will upon another&#8212;through acts of violence, no less&#8212;appears difficult to reconcile with the prevailing idea of culture. The caricaturist who depicted the soldier&#8217;s boot as a symbol of cultural destruction and an instrument hostile to civilization would seem, at first glance, to have been vindicated by the great military philosopher himself.</p><p>But matters are not so simple. As so often, appearances deceive. For von Clausewitz was not satisfied with this definition alone; he sought to penetrate more deeply into the essence of war. War, he observed, does not exist in isolation.</p><p>The circumstances from which it arises, under which it unfolds, and which are likely to follow its conclusion, all influence it and help to determine its character. In this lies a limitation upon the otherwise entirely correct definition. Clausewitz therefore proceeds further.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg" width="223" height="278.4726368159204" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:251,&quot;width&quot;:201,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:223,&quot;bytes&quot;:5949,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/177296565?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_GtA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9323610-a074-4056-8670-6ac2665e4ef6_201x251.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>&#8220;<em>The political purpose</em>,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;<em>as the original motive of war, will be the measure of it</em>.&#8221; With this statement, a new element is introduced into our understanding of war&#8212;namely, that of politics. The background of war is political. The will that we seek to impose upon our adversary through war is not an arbitrary will, not mere caprice; it is our political will.</p><p>Developing this line of thought, von Clausewitz arrives at his famous conclusion: that war is the continuation of politics by other means, and that we must therefore not regard it as an independent entity, but as a political instrument.</p><h4>Culture</h4><p>Following Clausewitz&#8217;s reflections, we have now penetrated somewhat deeper into the nature of the concept of &#8220;<em>war</em>.&#8221; Let us now try to clarify what we mean by the word culture. We speak of cultivated plants, of bringing wild land under cultivation, but likewise of cultural creations, cultural treasures, and cultural nations. The meaning of this term is therefore very broad, and it is not simple to determine the underlying sense common to all these usages.</p><p>The word derives from the Latin &#8220;<em>colere</em>&#8221; &#8212; to tend, to care for, to bring to growth and fruition &#8212; and is closely related to cultus, meaning worship, religious observance, and the preservation of ancestral traditions.</p><p>The concept of culture, therefore, contains two essential meanings: on the one hand, the care and preservation of a people&#8217;s inherited spiritual heritage; on the other, the nurturing and unfolding of values that are already latent within it. Thus, cultivated plants are those that have been bred and tended so that their yield and quality are raised to the highest possible level.</p><p>Only through cultivation is the uncultivated state overcome, and the original form brought to a higher development.</p><p>When we apply this meaning to the life of a people, it follows that culture must always build upon something that precedes it &#8212; upon what is original and natural. Culture, in this sense, means the careful development and flowering of a people&#8217;s own character and way of life.</p><p>It has often been claimed that there exists a fundamental opposition between nature and culture, yet nothing could be less true. Nature and culture are not opposites but continuations of one another: the latter cannot exist without the former. 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There thus exists a real contrast not between nature and culture, but between civilization and culture. The very words express this distinction. In the sense we use it, civilization refers to external refinement &#8212; the smoothing of manners and appearances, the cultivation of the surface &#8212; without any corresponding transformation of the inner life. Culture, by contrast, grows from within, nurturing and developing the best inherent qualities and capacities of a people.</p><h4>Politics</h4><p>To be able to speak of culture, however, a second element is necessary. This follows directly from the preceding reflections. There must be a guiding and directing center&#8212;one that makes possible and furthers the unfolding of the people&#8217;s inherent powers. That this leading element must be most intimately connected with the people, indeed must arise from it, goes without saying.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EJHN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99e14fe6-2480-4bd7-a7a8-32351ae78902_932x525.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EJHN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99e14fe6-2480-4bd7-a7a8-32351ae78902_932x525.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>The cultivation of a people&#8217;s life&#8212;the giving of leadership and direction to popular currents, the unification of the people&#8217;s forces, in short, the advancement of culture&#8212;is what we call politics in the true sense of the word.</p><p>Here, then, we find the point of contact between the concepts of soldiership and culture, which for the democrat seem mutually exclusive.</p><p>Culture is the aim of politics; it is the result of political activity. War is nothing other than a form of politics determined by circumstance&#8212;politics expressed in another guise, &#8220;<em>politics by other means</em>.&#8221;</p><p>The ultimate goal of war, therefore, is the same as that of politics: the unfolding, advancement, and safeguarding of a people&#8217;s native culture.</p><p>War is thus not an end in itself but a means. But politics, too, is not an end in itself, and equally a means.</p><p>Seen in this way, there is no opposition between soldiership and culture; rather, they belong together in the closest sense. We are therefore soldiers in the ordinary sense, but also political soldiers, united in one great purpose: the preservation and advancement of our Germanic culture.</p><h4>The State</h4><p>The organ that bears political life, and that likewise wages politics by other means&#8212;war&#8212;is the state. Soldier and statesman alike are the executors of its will: the promotion of their people&#8217;s culture.</p><p>To be a soldier, therefore, always means to cooperate&#8212;albeit by different means than the politician&#8212;in the realization of the political ideal, that is, in the furthering of culture. To be a soldier means, therefore, to be a protector of culture.</p><p>This line of thought is summarized by the F&#252;hrer in Mein Kampf as follows:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s therefore the first obligation of any new movement based on a racial worldview, to put forth a clear and logical doctrine of the nature and purpose of the State. The fundamental principle is that the State is not an end in itself, but the means to an end. It&#8217;s the pre-condition of a higher form of human civilization, but it&#8217;s not the cause. This cause is found exclusively in the existence of a culture-creating race</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>The soldier, in this respect, is likewise an executor of the state&#8217;s mission. That he may often do so unconsciously changes nothing of its essence.</p><p>The SS, however, must be fully conscious of this. The SS man is a political soldier; he must be completely permeated with the awareness that his being a soldier is not something isolated or self-contained, but that it gains its meaning and purpose through the political ideal: the culture of his people.</p><p>The SS man seeks to contribute to the advancement of that culture by all means&#8212;even by the means of the soldier, which must often be destructive and are therefore regarded by the superficial democrat as directed against culture itself.</p><p>Yet this destruction is no end in itself; no more than war is an end in itself, or politics, or even the state. None of these are ultimate ends, nor ever shall be, so long as National Socialism lives.</p><p>All these things are means&#8212;means that we, in the SS, consciously employ to bring the innate gifts of our people, given by nature, to their fullest development in the Reich.</p><p>Originally published in SS-Vormingsbladen, November 1944</p><p>Translated from Dutch by Hame&#231;on</p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Purchase a copy of Arditi today!</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3DQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ca984f7-1a4c-4339-a122-82981c81fe11_1500x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Become a paid subscriber and enjoy our care package system. $25/month gets you a printed magazine copy, stickers, and an exclusive pamphlet.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>National Socialism does not suffer from a lack of heroes and heroines. Their deeds, their accomplishments and above all their sacrifices serve us as an example, an obligation and a source of strength.</p><p>My generation, the first &#8220;<em>postwar generation</em>,&#8221; still had the chance to personally meet many of these heroes. I remember visiting the famous Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel in his home in Kufstein, Tirol in the 1970s. A great honor!</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg" width="253" height="391" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:391,&quot;width&quot;:253,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:143477,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/175931052?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lye!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd877bbc4-a0c0-433b-9992-62d415c97b5a_253x391.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Lost are only those who abandon themselves.&#8221; -Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>But there are many other comrades who have had an even greater influence on me. First, I spent more time with them than with the Colonel, and second, they were &#8220;<em>just normal people</em>,&#8221; even though they did a lot more than &#8220;<em>normal</em>.&#8221;</p><p>There were the old SA comrades Walter Luttermann and Karl-Ferdinand Schwarz, the married M&#252;ller couple and &#8220;<em>Armin</em>&#8221; of the Hitler Youth generation, Thies Christophersen, the fighters of the postwar generation such as Michael K&#252;hnen, Gottfried K&#252;ssel, and others who remain unnamed only for security reasons.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GeQE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2025212-fb79-421a-bf01-1794a58c81e5_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The war is over. All is lost. Life has become meaningless. &#8220;<em>Gretchen</em>&#8221; walks into the forest to the railroad tracks. She sits down on the tracks and waits for a train, which will end this sad life. She ponders. Then she makes a different decision. If she survives, perhaps one can one day do something in the spirit of the F&#252;hrer. One stands up and goes home. Years pass. In the spring of 1972 an expellee from Breslau says there is a NSDAP/AO. She becomes one of the first members, one of the most hard-working volunteers, and a generous financial backer, although not rich and very modest in life style. She does volunteer work year after year, decade after decade. At an old age, blindness sets in. But she continues to work &#8212; she can still fold and stuff mailing pieces.</p><p>&#8230;Mortally ill with cancer. Can hardly eat or sleep. Walking is difficult and tiring. But &#8220;<em>FW</em>&#8221; can still do something: he drags oneself to the desk and does computer work. Hours long. Because it is hard to stand up and return to the easy chair. Day after day. Year after year. On the morning of the last day alive, this is still the routine. That afternoon death comes.</p><p>&#8230;1945. The young soldier, &#8220;<em>Armin</em>&#8221;, continues to fight after the armistice. Later he is captured, but not identified as a Werewolf fighter. Four years in a special pow camp for unrepentant Nazis. Finally freedom. Immediately resumes political activism. Prison. Wife leaves. Again freedom, political activism and a major role in the expansion of the NSDAP/AO in the 1970&#8217;s. But a traitor means prison. Second wife leaves.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg" width="745" height="514" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:514,&quot;width&quot;:745,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:480247,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/175931052?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8cZx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68e996ec-cf03-470a-9bda-20454f0cf8f3_745x514.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Werewolf fighters from Germany.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>&#8230;Four years political imprisonment &#8211; without parole to the very last day. Then the day of freedom. Back to political work. A year of intensive activity. Followed by four more years of prison. Free again, active again, right up to death. His name: Michael K&#252;hnen. He was the most important National Socialist leader of his generation in Germany.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg" width="525" height="449.5601173020528" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:292,&quot;width&quot;:341,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:525,&quot;bytes&quot;:108790,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/175931052?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!92Mm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fdebf54-391b-45cd-96fe-0a50477de3d1_341x292.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>&#8230;&#8221;B.&#8221; wishes to marry, but the party needs workers and money. A family will just have to wait a few years. But illness comes despite youth. A family no longer comes, rather death.</p><p>...&#8221;R.&#8221; is crippled in the Vietnam War. Both legs gone. One arm gone. Other arm injured. Still not helpless. Telephone work is possible. Thanks to this telephone work, the NSDAP/AO expands its television program from one to sixteen cities within one year.</p><p>&#8230;A crisis. &#8220;M.&#8221; steps in and takes over tasks without training. Free time and profession are traded for political work, aggravation, worry and stress. He holds out for years until the crisis is over and his large family can again have priority.</p><p>Comrades!</p><p>These are true stories!</p><p>I have worked with these comrades closely, sometimes for decades. We owe the accomplishments of the NSDAP/AO over the past three decades to them.</p><p>May they serve you as example and obligation, as comfort and inspiration, as they have served me.</p><div><hr></div><h4><strong>Purchase a copy of Arditi today!</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WkY3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F470f5928-1045-4f95-91b1-20bfbfa41a2c_1500x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WkY3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F470f5928-1045-4f95-91b1-20bfbfa41a2c_1500x500.png 424w, 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This issue opens with &#8220;The Hearth of Thanksgiving,&#8221; an editor&#8217;s reflection on gratitude, family, and the enduring values that anchor civilization&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">6 months ago &#183; 3 likes &#183; Ardito</div></a></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Racial Unconscious]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follow Sensitive Young Fascist on Twitter/X]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-racial-unconscious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-racial-unconscious</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sensitive Young Fascist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:28:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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As far as I know, she had never been on a cruise &#8212; it was an opinion that almost felt &#8216;planted&#8217;.</p><p>Coincidentally, this is 2-3 years after cruises had become popular among black people during Covid. Before then, Cruises were a White activity. After Covid, they are full of niggers playing loud music, generally being nuisances. In the wake of this demographic shift, Carnival Cruise had to make a number of new rules against cannabis use, unsupervised children, speaker music &#8212; in other words against nigger behavior. And the ships don&#8217;t play hip-hop and rap anymore.</p><p>So why did this person I know suddenly develop an opinion about cruises? I argue it was her racial unconscious talking. She&#8217;s an antiracist person, and would never consciously connect her opinion on cruises to the demographics of cruise ships, but nevertheless that is the chain of cause and effect. She learned how to avoid black people unconsciously, without even knowing that&#8217;s what she was doing, because it was essential for her survival &#8211; and it is this ability I term the racial unconscious.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Purchase your print copy today!</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uYOX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff85991ac-9fc8-42eb-923d-2593979a459d_1500x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uYOX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff85991ac-9fc8-42eb-923d-2593979a459d_1500x500.png 424w, 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This issue opens with &#8220;The Hearth of Thanksgiving,&#8221; an editor&#8217;s reflection on gratitude, family, and the enduring values that anchor civilization&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">6 months ago &#183; Ardito</div></a></div><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">If you want to finish reading the rest of this article, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Paid subscribers get access to all of our articles and a digital copy of our magazine!</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Whites have both a racial conscious and a racial unconscious. In people with highly advanced racial consciousness, the racial unconscious tends to be small to nonexistent. And the reverse is true &#8211; when the racial consciousness is nonexistent, the racial unconsciousness tends to be fully formed. The racial unconscious is how the racially unaware person is able to avoid bad neighborhoods, niggerish hobbies and interests, and ultimately black people altogether. The individual with an advanced racial unconscious lives in a predominantly white neighborhood because it&#8217;s vaguely &#8220;<em>good</em>,&#8221; works for a left-wing NGO surrounded by other whites and Jews, goes to upscale trendy bars with their friends, and in a nutshell curates their entire social existence, unconsciously, around avoiding black people.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!amv8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f185225-7367-47f2-9071-b2db06e98c74_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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You don&#8217;t see many niggers doing this.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Sometimes Whites have neither racial consciousness nor a racial unconscious. Such a state doesn&#8217;t tend to last. The kind of woman who unironically solo travels to Pakistan to get raped and murdered is an example of this type.</p><p>The only way to navigate the world without becoming racially aware is to have an advanced racial unconscious that keeps you away from the kinds of experiences with niggers that would cause you to develop racial consciousness. So for the left-wing white person, having a highly developed racial unconscious that enables them to have wrong ideas about blacks while remaining insulated from the consequences of those wrong ideas &#8211; is essential to the preservation of their race-blind worldview.</p><p>It&#8217;s been observed that the people who are the most &#8216;white&#8217; in character and behavior are left-wingers, while right-wingers tend to be more niggerish. A smear, but there is truth to it. The right is inundated with literal niggers like Nikki Haley and vulgar Spics like Valentina Gomez. Trump is a spiritual nigger. And at the same time, the right is more racially conscious. Why is this? Contact with niggers tends to give one a racial consciousness, but make oneself more niggerish in the process &#8211; whereas a racial unconscious, absorbed via mimesis can allow one to avoid niggers unconsciously and retain a greater degree of spiritual whiteness.</p><p>Having a highly developed racial unconscious is not necessarily a bad way to live. Hobbies that put you constantly around other like-minded white people &#8211; upscale bars, left-wing causes, trendy neighborhoods sounds fun and social, even if somewhat faggy.</p><p>But the racial unconscious doesn&#8217;t always manifest in such a happy way. Some people learn to avoid blacks by becoming withdrawn, by retreating to video games or nerdy interests, or by becoming generally introverted. If you don&#8217;t go outside, you will avoid black people, but you will also cede any masculine character.</p><p>Wiggerization is another way that the racial unconscious can manifest. Adopting the dress, speech patterns, and hobbies of the nigger doesn&#8217;t allow you to avoid niggers directly &#8211; but it does mitigate much of their natural hostility toward whites. Sometimes the racial unconscious will opt for this approach, especially if due to geographical considerations, avoiding them altogether isn&#8217;t possible.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pgve!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb15bb60-6957-4cc0-ae0b-64a256e0f489_417x417.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pgve!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb15bb60-6957-4cc0-ae0b-64a256e0f489_417x417.jpeg 424w, 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This may be part of why left-wingers are so mentally fucked up. And this affliction being so widespread explains why there are so few men of Hitler or Kipling&#8217;s caliber in our own times.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>&#8220;Wigger: a young white who wants desperately to be down with hip-hop, who identifies more strongly with Black culture than white. (What&#8217;s disturbing about this expression is its racist implications: if white kids down with hip-hop are &#8216;wiggers,&#8217; what does that make Black kids down with hip-hop?)&#8221;<strong> &#8212; </strong></em>Bakari Kitwana</p></div><p>I had heard it related that a prominent creative female on our side experienced bullying growing up, which made her shy and awkward. She later connected the dots and realized that she was being bullied for being white &#8211; for having European interests, mannerisms, patterns of behavior &#8211; they were trying to turn her into a wigger! And when she became aware of this bullying, she went from being an introvert to an extrovert.</p><p>That this process unlocked her creative potential. And of course as a side effect, she became a &#8216;<em>Nazi</em>.&#8217;</p><p>I won&#8217;t include her name because I don&#8217;t know whether this story is true &#8211; but this kind of thing can happen. Her racial unconscious gave her a spiritual illness, and she excised it with the medicine of racial consciousness. Upon imbibing the medicine, she became devoted to the cause forever.</p><p>This medicine that she found is the same medicine that must be applied to society at large.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg" width="1024" height="729" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:729,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:339592,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/177293876?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frOI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6552591b-8cfb-40c9-9b59-3ad71ee2623a_1024x729.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Raise your arm. Raise your nation. Heil Hitler!</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>We require National Socialism, because it is only in national socialism that racial consciousness is brought about to the very highest degree.</p><p>Questions of culture, the arts, the intellectual sphere, and importantly, politics, cannot be satisfactorily analyzed without the racial consciousness of National Socialism. It is incomplete to say that modern architecture is bad and ugly without the understanding that it is jewish by nature and that it serves jewish interests. It is incomplete to understand that race-blind policy has had deleterious consequences on society without the understanding that it is a relativist Jewish invention that serves Jewish interests.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mS0c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1092fa26-e2a4-4cb4-b233-29be30c7aae0_1460x822.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mS0c!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1092fa26-e2a4-4cb4-b233-29be30c7aae0_1460x822.jpeg 424w, 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We develop a framework that lets us answer future questions proactively without having to wait to experience the costly results. We can start to recognize the insults and injuries inflicted by the enemy in real time. We can start to play offense. And we can start to win.</p><p>Through National Socialism, we become our highest selves. Our nation becomes its highest self.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Idea of ​​an Eugenic Aristocracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arditi is a reader-supported publication.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-idea-of-an-eugenic-aristocracy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/the-idea-of-an-eugenic-aristocracy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reactionary Programmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:02:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gPAj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8bf62427-2c24-45c7-ba94-45f12544c2c8_1545x2000.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Become a paid subscriber and enjoy our care package system. $25/month gets you a printed magazine copy, stickers, and an exclusive pamphlet.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>If we consult Fustel de Coulanges and Julius Evola, we find that aristocracies in antiquity were formed by pontiffs, that is, those who bridge the gap between the otherworld and the sensible world, also called kings. This fact is evident in pre-republican Rome and stems from the Indo-European or Aryan religion, originating from the peoples who left the Caucasus and spread throughout Central Asia and Europe, forming Hindu, Greco-Roman, and other cultures, such as that of the Germanic peoples. the initial religion of the Aryan peoples is polytheistic (although racial theorists such as H.S. Chamberlain and Alfred P. Schultz consider them as monotheistic), they had a tradition of worshipping the dead, that is, if my father died and I am the firstborn, I have to worship him, and so it continues with my children, thus having the origin of private property in this aspect, the connection with the land of the ancestors and where my descendants will live, from this configuration arises the right of primogeniture and patriarchy.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bH9i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a817a11-b8bb-479c-8f58-ce574f32b8fe_367x599.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Chamberlain</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>In a very interesting book from Peter Sloterdijk&#8217;s Spheres trilogy, in the first volume &#8220;<em>Bubbles</em>&#8220;, there is information that self-thought and therefore individuality originated in Greece 2,500 years ago, with the emergence of philosophy, which is exclusively Greek and was not borrowed from other peoples, as John Burnet states, denoting not only a unique originality, but also a racial quality that provided this development. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. 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absurdities seriously. The Middle Ages, under the predominance of the Catholic Church, established the feudal economic model and inherited Roman law, which included primogeniture and the divine nobility of nobles. It was only with the emergence of mercantile society, the genesis of capitalism, that the monarchy could be openly challenged. One of the first challenges was the English Revolution, whose most famous figure was Oliver Cromwell. However, the English Revolution was less influential in its challenge than the French Revolution of the following century, which, previously, had Rousseau and Richardson as its intellectual foundation. This is where modern egalitarianism, including its biological nature, emerged.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp" width="750" height="450" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:450,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:40618,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://arditimagazine.substack.com/i/177292746?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D-J4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ef18f-5e87-43b9-aff5-6d076056866a_750x450.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;<em>England has been all she could be to the Jews &#8211; The Jews will be all they can be to England</em>.&#8221; -Oliver Cromwell</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>But egalitarianism, like its opposite, is not new. If we look at the Greek concept of gender, this meant race, with the word genos corresponding to the definition. However, gender in philosophy refers to a branch of a science. Catholicism&#8217;s turning point was to preach the equality of souls, while Protestantism defined the soul racially, which later reverted to what would become the human racial classifications of the early days of slavery.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whmi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76f4b5f4-f3d7-4e87-9962-c8e95bcafa06_400x502.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whmi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76f4b5f4-f3d7-4e87-9962-c8e95bcafa06_400x502.jpeg 424w, 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Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind. This short life counts for too little in their eyes</em>.&#8221; -Jean-Jacques Rousseau</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>What sustained the idea of &#8203;&#8203;monarchy was &#8220;<em>divine right</em>,&#8221; so egalitarians needed to attack and destroy belief in God, more specifically the Catholic God, given that the stereotype of the Enlightenment man who doesn&#8217;t believe in deities never existed. Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, and basically all the Enlightenment thinkers joined this discrediting of belief, creating the climate for what would become known as &#8220;<em>Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity</em>&#8220; and all the logical consequences that follow, resulting in the racial and moral chaos we experience today. For a number of political reasons, eugenics was suppressed, ridiculed, and deeply stereotyped. It&#8217;s no exaggeration to say that Hitler&#8217;s defeat was also the defeat of the white race, for it was only through the &#8220;<em>crimes</em>&#8220; of the &#8220;<em>truculent, stupid, and irascible Nazis</em>&#8220; that racial science became stereotyped with all sorts of possible negative consequences.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ez2l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b04816-470c-43ca-ac81-459bb42d50e6_1175x1600.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ez2l!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7b04816-470c-43ca-ac81-459bb42d50e6_1175x1600.webp 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Given everything discussed in this text, we perceive a vulgar Platonism mixed with Marxism and its derivatives in racial egalitarians when they postulate that races do not exist, that this is only apparent, and that what is real is equality, not difference, that race is merely a social construct. And how can this idea be imposed? Saying that if this were not the case, Nazism would return to power is the only argument, and this is the reason why it is forbidden to question the history of the Holocaust, because after the fall of one myth, all others collapse like buildings built on clay.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hoJy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F702b9e03-81c4-4796-a6c8-4874a7fe80fc_941x1260.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hoJy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F702b9e03-81c4-4796-a6c8-4874a7fe80fc_941x1260.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;<em>If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror</em>.&#8221; - Voltaire</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Lothrop Stoddard, analyzing American society in 1922, proposed the form of neo-aristocracy before moving on to neo-democracy; this step is important because there is no point in having a democracy when there is the presence of the Under-men (inferior man), who must be eliminated, that is, prevented that he be born and not killed while still alive or in the mother&#8217;s womb. Stoddard clearly demonstrates that the Under-men&#8217;s intention is to return to the state of nature, where there were no standards or distinctions. Civilization is painful for the Under-men, who today are achieving the gradual destruction of everything that reminds them of superiority: music, art, literature, and the white race. Stoddard&#8217;s idea is not to relegate Black people to the lower class; in fact, in the eugenics social model, there will be no Black people, but rather a 100% white society. Within this race, through better breeding, an attempt will be made to improve the existing stock, purge the inferior, and create a civilization never before seen. With the economic dynamism of capitalism, the inferior are pushed below the upper class and the superior upward. Through meritocracy and a favorable environment, the possibility of the downfall of the inferior and the rise of the superior, creating a culturally superior race of unique and invincible beauty!</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PMpi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f1ecbf6-5d74-4874-a95e-84cefd454b2e_934x1322.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PMpi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f1ecbf6-5d74-4874-a95e-84cefd454b2e_934x1322.jpeg 424w, 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This issue opens with &#8220;<em>The Hearth of Thanksgiving</em>,&#8221; an editor&#8217;s reflection on gratitude, family, and the enduring values that anchor civilization.</p><p>Within its pages, readers will find essays exploring philosophy, postwar culture, and the ongoing dialogue between faith, heritage, and the modern world. Each contribution challenges readers to think critically about the relationship between man, society, and tradition, offering a perspective often overlooked in mainstream discourse.</p><p>Beautifully designed and richly illustrated, Arditi IX showcases the work of artists and writers dedicated to the craft of print publishing. From historical studies to meditations on contemporary life, every piece embodies the magazine&#8217;s founding mission - to preserve intellectual independence and the timeless appeal of the printed word.</p><p>Printed in full color with high-quality materials, this perfect-bound edition is both a work of art and a record of the magazine&#8217;s evolving vision. Arditi IX invites readers to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the deeper meanings of faith, family, and cultural endurance.</p><p>Specifications:</p><p>Format: 8 &#215; 11 in perfect-bound magazine</p><p>Page Count: &#8776; 67</p><p>Publication Date: November 2025</p><p>Publisher: TNW LLC</p><p>Language: English</p><p>Rights: Worldwide</p><p>Purchase your copy today!</p><p>US &amp; UK: <a href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=WTHh3KKaOG4Xgd3D847bU0GOMChedbnDWhmA58DbJVa">https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=WTHh3KKaOG4Xgd3D847bU0GOMChedbnDWhmA58DbJVa</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reclaiming The Forgotten America ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Filling in the cracks left by the Regime.]]></description><link>https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/reclaiming-the-forgotten-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.arditimagazine.com/p/reclaiming-the-forgotten-america</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[James Knox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:00:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2hEV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26e4f515-0d4b-4aab-9dcb-40f8d7299165_634x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2hEV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26e4f515-0d4b-4aab-9dcb-40f8d7299165_634x500.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2hEV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26e4f515-0d4b-4aab-9dcb-40f8d7299165_634x500.png 424w, 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We&#8217;ve all seen the maps comparing population and voting patterns a million times by now. However, their real strength is not as simple as maintaining the status quo against Leftist radicals. Instead, the real power of small towns is more abstract and strategic. Small towns offer two main things:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Lack of oversight and </strong></p></li><li><p><strong>an opportunity to build a massively positive reputation</strong></p></li></ol><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.arditimagazine.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Arditi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. All paid members get access to our magazine articles for only $5/ month or $50/year.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Most of these small towns are stricken by poverty and drug addiction, as anyone who has lived in or around them can tell you. Also, and most importantly, these areas generally have a very low police presence. High-end surveillance technology is basically non-existent in these areas, because what local police are present simply can&#8217;t afford it. The actual boots on the ground police presence is also minimal. The city police force is generally very small, with some small cities not even having one to begin with. This leaves most of the policing up to the sheriff&#8217;s department, but they have to service the entire county meaning their attention gets divided.</p><p>Now, I should take a moment to say that this article isn&#8217;t about &#8220;<em>homesteading</em>&#8221; per se. At least, not in the sort of escapist &#8220;<em>cabin in the woods</em>&#8221; sense that many people have. Removing yourself from the system is impossible; sooner or later it comes for you in one way or another.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg" width="860" height="484" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:484,&quot;width&quot;:860,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;featured image for blog&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="featured image for blog" title="featured image for blog" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y34g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427f85f4-28db-4f1a-9210-254bc4c61a50_860x484.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;<em>There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace</em>.&#8221; - Aldo Leopold</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>It&#8217;s important to note, however, that this is not really something that can be done alone. You will need at least a few close friends/family to get things started, and then eventually administrate things at the higher levels. Money also helps, especially if you want to</p><p>This article is instead about creating a foundation. That being said, you shouldn&#8217;t be picking some small town literally in the middle of nowhere, with the closest big city being hours away. You need to be within commuting distance to at least a mid-sized town (50,000+ population) where you can focus your political efforts. The idea here is to create a safe-haven in these small towns, to which you can retreat in the event that things go poorly in the more densely populated areas nearby.</p><p>It&#8217;s important to note, however, that this is not really something that can be done alone. You will need at least a few close friends/family to get things started, and then eventually administrate things at the higher levels. Money also helps, especially if you want to really invest in your area for the long term. A local insider is also an incredible boon, due to their knowledge of the area and the simple fact that small towns tend to look very negatively on outsiders.</p><p>To get to the point: what you want to do is essentially take over these towns from the inside. You want to get people you know into local offices, build up local industry, and generally ingratiate yourself into the local community.</p><p>If you have a trusted local who is in on your plan, they should be the face of the operation (i.e: if you want someone to run for mayor, it needs to be them). However, you want to get as many important offices as you can. While it&#8217;s also out of the ability of many, if you can develop local industry that is an incredible boon.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;The Parallel Economy must first be achieved by returning to the land which our forefathers tilled. 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With over 70 pages of content, Arditi is sure to please its readers.</figcaption></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=cU9cwVX6vMu0Y3t2SVb0rSCOK38YDeOiPfymR7LCzgZ&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;US &amp; UK&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=cU9cwVX6vMu0Y3t2SVb0rSCOK38YDeOiPfymR7LCzgZ"><span>US &amp; UK</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Arditi-Issue-No-Imperator-Ardito/dp/B0FP11D1BQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1FI45QNMVV13T&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.q1kVbRDw4Bi7K767erof7-QD1BIRkt4A5xFqnKBC_YqFnTfdsNdyM1oXHUhbqdj3t7T9ZWdVtArnugT3rzLj0iKciNxt9E3965xHtxwEreBIH7uad8m0lv0SrGnEPIZzdVaxkXTDETupYA2YiLm9olsdxkwjdLyR6xzcDBeN5f6ETu-TaGagmnbhJ_HZkD1pZ410OAR9FbWGwNA0l20V5F09SHUqjbEHP0XBpsalTPU.B4YRNCnNuqFsHWwxp-Qy5h2hB0gjQq52vaxwdZE5KtI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=arditi&amp;qid=1760192221&amp;sprefix=arditi%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-2&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;International&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.amazon.com/Arditi-Issue-No-Imperator-Ardito/dp/B0FP11D1BQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1FI45QNMVV13T&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.q1kVbRDw4Bi7K767erof7-QD1BIRkt4A5xFqnKBC_YqFnTfdsNdyM1oXHUhbqdj3t7T9ZWdVtArnugT3rzLj0iKciNxt9E3965xHtxwEreBIH7uad8m0lv0SrGnEPIZzdVaxkXTDETupYA2YiLm9olsdxkwjdLyR6xzcDBeN5f6ETu-TaGagmnbhJ_HZkD1pZ410OAR9FbWGwNA0l20V5F09SHUqjbEHP0XBpsalTPU.B4YRNCnNuqFsHWwxp-Qy5h2hB0gjQq52vaxwdZE5KtI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=arditi&amp;qid=1760192221&amp;sprefix=arditi%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-2"><span>International</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>As mentioned previously, these areas tend to be rather poor and afflicted with a drug problem. Generally, these things go hand in hand. However, they can both be solved relatively easily, provided you have the start-up capital. Bringing some amount of industry, specifically something that has a high demand for low-skill labor, to these areas is a fantastic way of entrenching yourself in the hearts of locals. Many of these people are desperate for work so that they can feed their families, and if you can provide that then they will adore you. Many of the old timers in my area practically worship a company that once had a factory in my area, because of the economic boon that it was. Of course, I don&#8217;t expect very many people to have the ability to start such a large industry, but if you do or if you eventually find yourself in such a position, bear in mind the influence you can wield. Also, don&#8217;t be afraid of losing money, especially early on; you&#8217;re after something more abstract and far more valuable than money. 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Art by <strong><a href="https://t.me/waveguy">Wave Guy</a></strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>That being said, it&#8217;s enough in most cases to simply fill the ranks of local police with friendly faces and get people you trust into local committees/boards to increase the influence of your movement. You don&#8217;t necessarily have to bring thousands of jobs to an area, it&#8217;s just a cheat code for success in this regard.</p><p>You also need to win the hearts and minds of the people themselves. The best way to do that is to clean up their town. Drug abuse is a rampant issue, but it has very tangible sociological causes. Investment in your local area is an excellent way to stave off drug abuse. That is to say: it&#8217;s not enough to lock up all the drug dealers, you need to also give people a reason not to buy drugs in the first place. Of course, if you have the money to build a factory in town then instituting mandatory drug tests is a good way to incentivize people to stop doing drugs, as failing to do so means that they lose their good job. If you don&#8217;t have that kind of capital, as most people won&#8217;t, the other option is to invest directly into public works which will increase community interest and involvement in the area. Parks are an excellent way to increase community involvement, while providing an entertainment outlet that isn&#8217;t drugs. Local fairs and festivals are also a great idea. Ultimately, there are countless ways one can accomplish this, but the general idea is to just make the area a nice place to live, which means putting in a lot of man hours.</p><p>This is the real key to advancing your movement: saving your town. If you can beat back drug addiction, and solve whatever other issues may ail your town, that&#8217;s something you can easily turn into a state campaign, or maybe even a national campaign. All the while, you&#8217;ll still have your newly drug-free town to retreat to as a safe haven.</p><p>Of course, keep in mind that this isn&#8217;t a rulebook to live by. The precise situations you may find yourself in will vary greatly depending on your area and your means. Some things may be within your reach, others not so much. You will also have to get creative about a lot of things, especially in the day to day. The important part, however, is that you have a strong network behind you and a solid vision ahead of you.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ozfp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed03de78-b5b3-478c-bd72-ee75103b0e63_595x842.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ozfp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed03de78-b5b3-478c-bd72-ee75103b0e63_595x842.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ozfp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed03de78-b5b3-478c-bd72-ee75103b0e63_595x842.png 848w, 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In this case, specifically the Pacific North-West Initiative and its lackluster performance as a movement. In theory, the idea is sound. Regrouping in a strategically advantageous location like the PNW makes some sense, however the logistics behind the praxis of the PNW movement make this entirely impossible. The main issue with the PNW is that it made the unrealistic demand that everyone move to one specific part of the country.</p><p>Not only is this simply not economically feasible for most people, it is also not something that should be encouraged for political reasons. You can&#8217;t simply uproot yourself and your family and move to some new part of the country and expect to have the same attachment to it. It&#8217;s important that people truly feel attached to their land, and moving hundreds or even thousands of miles away is not how you accomplish that. It&#8217;s also important that the movement not be centralized in one specific area, and instead be spread around the entire country. We can&#8217;t afford to be seen as a regional movement, after all.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>