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GETTING YOUR BEARINGS If you really want to know where you’re going, you’d better be quite sure about where you are now. The caution may seem trite, but it is of vital importance if you want to live your own life instead of the one chosen for you by other people, especially politicians, media pundits, religious and secular propagandists. Much of what you take for granted is apt to be untrue; the product of indoctrination since childhood by family, teachers, and anyone else with an aura of authority. And you tend to ‘go along with it’ if only to avoid disputation and delay, until it becomes part of the mental baggage you carry throughout your life. This is true regardless of your formal qualifications and assumed enlightenment ; for as Mark Twain pithily reminds us ‘ Plain ignorance is not the problem….it’s what you know that ain’t so’. And we have the most concise definition of a bigot, ‘Most ignorant of what he’s most assured’. So you’re lumbered with a lot of more or less reliable assumptions, many of them damaging to your own and others’ welfare. . ‘Not me’ you may protest’ I’m an open-minded person’. But that too is apt to be an unwarranted assumption. All of this relates to sharpening your perceptions and getting reliable bearings in the real world, which differs a lot more than you think from the one you’ve been led to assume by indoctrinators of one stripe or another. Indeed, it could be said that a great many people behave like computers with obsolete software struggling to tackle new problems. This disparity between belief and knowledge has vexed philosophers and religious people all through history, and is becoming more prominent with the ‘information explosion’ (Internet, etc)of the last few decades and the spread of higher education. It comes down to the everyday challenge of reconciling new information with what you already know or tend to believe. And this can be a quite stressful if not shattering experience for those with strong but erroneous views meeting even stronger contradictory evidence. Sooner or later their world-view must be re-orientated to accord with a more robust version of reality. In the meantime it can be a major cause of psychological and social problems. This ‘cognitive dissonance’ - meaning failure to reconcile incontrovertible evidence with pre-conceived notions - is a phenomenon affecting not just personal attitudes and behaviour but profoundly influencing world affairs. It is, for example, at the root of the present conflict between Muslim fundamentalists and Western society; also the deepest schism in American politics between the so-called ‘Religious Right’ and the ‘liberal democrats’. Witness also the near-hatred with which ecclesiastics and evangelists regard the teaching of Darwin on how life (including humankind) has evolved without any supernatural direction whatever. More recently we see the Anglican Church struggling to reconcile scripture with intrusive feminism and homosexuality. Cognitive dissonance? As the late Spike Milligan would have observed ‘There’s a lot of it about’ Taking a panoramic view, we are now experiencing WW3 in the surely ultimate political showdown between ‘globalism’ and traditional nationalism. Here, by any standard, bodies like the European Union and the Bilderberg Conference - both entirely without a democratic mandate - are the greatest threat to race and nation in the modern world since the collapse of international Marxism.. Their overriding nation-busting intent is world government and a population differentiated only by credit card status and social security numbers. Meanwhile all party-political campaigns are mere local skirmishes in this looming apocalypse. Fail to recognise this and your voting preferences can never be more than self-delusion and finally suicidal. . Race is the most fundamental and inescapable reality in politics; it trumps every ideological, territorial and cultural argument ever invented. Deny it if you will, but your views on religious, political, economic, social and cultural matters will always be conditioned more by your race than any other factor. For as the more perceptive traveller soon discovers, there is no such thing as a ‘citizen of the world’. It’s your prerogative to believe in a personal God. The ‘hereafter’, divine intervention, infallible scriptures, and that some cove many centuries ago prescribed the rules for everybody till the end of time. But even assuming God has anything at all to say to us, we don’t need go-betweens in the form of prophets, saints, priests, evangelists and holier-than-thou interpreters of any kind. Similarly, we don’t need ‘celebrities’ to govern our attitudes to cultural and political issues. In short, we are free to come to terms with existence and the cosmos according to our own lights, not somebody else’s. This may be somewhat unnerving at times, but the alternative is infinitely worse. Turning to our own politics, for example, public figures like Nick Griffin only represent their own version of British nationalism, and like-minded people will naturally join his following. But genuine patriots are not party-political ‘groupies’ and camp-followers; they align themselves instead with certain fundamental elements of racial and national survival and support the likes of Griffin only to the extent that he does likewise Those fundamental elements are:
These are not arbitrary diktats or threadbare opinions but self-evident truths to anyone still functioning between the ears. Thus no election manifesto has any relevance to this country without incorporating these five axioms. Returning to my opening theme, therefore, Britain is going nowhere but down until it takes its stand on these fundamentals of racial and national survival. Waste no time then with those who oppose any of them; they are either impenetrably stupid or plain treacherous. Of course, everything else in national politics is secondary to these fundamentals and open to any amount of debate and amendment. And those who find this seriously restrictive are obviously living in the wrong country . So now do you know where you stand ? Get it wrong and you are indeed lost. F Kimbal Johnson July 2008
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