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> Pessimism, Optimism, and Realism
> by Kevin Alfred Strom
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> American Dissident Voices Broadcast of October 16, 2004
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> Like this family picnicking and playing cards on the railroad tracks as a
> train approaches, many White people are unconscious of the threats to our
> race's survival.
>
>
> Robert Benchley once said that the world can be divided into two kinds of
> people -- those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who
> don't. Well, I'm going to do some two-way dividing myself today (at the risk
> of sounding like a dualist, which I'm not; the universe is far too complex
> for such broad simplifications to be literally true). I'm going to look at
> two basic tendencies that I see among us White people who care for the
> future of our race and civilization: The optimists and the pessimists. There
> is much to be said for both points of view.
> The pessimistic view of our race's condition was perhaps best expressed by
> my late friend Revilo Oliver, who was so pessimistic that he regarded the
> fall of our race to have been in the past, as early as the 1970s -- and he
> even titled his long-running column "Postscripts" to drive home the idea.
> And the optimistic view was expressed in an as-yet-unpublished speech
> delivered at last week's National Alliance Leadership Conference by Dr.
> Charles Ellis, entitled "Why We're Going to Win."
>
> Oliver liked to refer to our race as "the self-doomed race" He liked to
> remark that the White boobies, by embracing the suicidal creeds of equality
> and multiracialism, had sentenced themselves to death and must "dree their
> weird" -- a Scottish expression meaning "endure their fate," that is, the
> fate they have brought upon themselves. I will quote, in part, what Oliver
> wrote in 1982 about White equalitarians, what they have brought upon us, and
> what they deserve, from a long out-of-print piece he wrote about formerly
> White Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe:
>
>
> If you were God and looked down on this Earth in 1970, you would have seen
> the 210,000 White men and women of Rhodesia declare themselves an
> independent republic in a desperate effort to save their lives and property
> from the swarming savages about them. And you would have seen the White men
> and women of Britain, and the White men and women of the United States, and
> the White men and women of Canada and of Australia and of South Africa, and
> the White men and women of ...Europe -- you would have seen those [more
> than] 500,000,000 White men and women, who form 10% of the Earth's
> population and could still rule the world, if they had left any vestiges of
> self-respect and manhood, gang up on the 210,000 of their kinsmen in
> Rhodesia and resolve to destroy them.
> You would have seen virtually the whole of the White race inspired by the
> diseased sadism and depraved hate of their own kin that alone can be an
> intelligible explanation of their murderous unanimity. And looking down in
> 1981, you would have seen one of the first fruits of the crazed
> 500,000,000's hatred of their kinsmen: like the photographers of the press,
> you would have seen the gleeful grins of the Black ape-men as they hacked up
> the bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes, a symbolic enactment of the hacking up of
> all White men, of which everywhere they dream by night and think by day.
>
> Even those who object to Oliver's colorful language would have to admit that
> his vision of the slaughter of Whites in Zimbabwe -- and now in neighboring
> South Africa as well -- has come absolutely, frighteningly true. The new
> multiracialist state looks the other way while murdering gangs of Blacks
> mutilate and slaughter White men, women, and children by the thousands in
> the most horrible manner imaginable. And the Jewish-controlled media say far
> less about this ongoing genocide than they do about Janet Jackson's nipples.
> http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=913
> http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1324
> http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1133
>
> Oliver continues:
>
>
> And, if you were God, a just god, and saw the White race's obscene orgy of
> racial depravity, wouldn't you have sent down from your heaven cleansing
> floods of purifying fires to annihilate a race so degenerate? In his place,
> I would have.
> Oh, yes, I know what the apologists of the White race would say. They would
> say that the 500,000,000 White men and women didn't really long to see the
> White women of Rhodesia raped and mutilated and the White men of Rhodesia
> mutilated or tortured to death. Oh, they didn't really want that. They just
> didn't give a damn. ...And they had elected traitors to govern them and were
> just too craven and cowardly to protest. No, the White people are full of
> love and brotherhood -- so full that, at their own expense, they are
> arranging to have their own children raped and butchered by subsidized
> savages.
>
> ...If you were a God, a just god, and heard such paltry excuses, such
> contemptible whining, would you be moved to withhold your purging floods or
> avenging flames? Neither would I.
>
> ...And so [in Rhodesia]... they joyfully hack up the bronze statue of a man
> who once hoped to civilize Africa, fondly believing that his own race would
> remain civilized.
>
> But cleansing floods or purging fires do not fall from heaven on the
> pest-hole that is now "Zimbabwe." Nor do they fall upon the White nations
> that assassinated Rhodesia.
>
> No deluge, no conflagration, falls upon the foully guilty. There is no god.
> But no, wait a minute. Perhaps there is a just god and he has withheld the
> lightnings of his righteous vengeance because he has doomed that degenerate
> race to the far more painful, lingering, and terrible death that their own
> suicidal insanity is infallibly bringing upon them.
>
> Powerful truths are in Oliver's words. And profound pessimism. Oliver once
> said that he had achieved an "integral pessimism" -- meaning complete
> pessimism -- regarding the future of our race. But, high as my regard is for
> the good Dr. Oliver (I think he was one of the greatest Americans of the
> 20th century), I note that for every twenty profoundly pessimistic articles
> like this one, there were probably nineteen times he privately expressed a
> thin but nevertheless persistent hope that his writings would be of some use
> and inspiration to White men and women who someday might build a new
> civilization from the ruins left by this one. And when you see the
> monumental legacy of great writing he left to us, and what work and energy
> that legacy represents, you see the true extent of Oliver's hope that he was
> making a difference. He began his patriotic work at age 46 and it did not
> end until his death at 86 -- and his output was, if anything, greater in his
> last decade of patriotic work than it was in his first.
>
> Dr. Charles Ellis is another man for whom I have a great respect. As I write
> this, it was just a few days ago that I heard his speech "Why We're Going to
> Win" -- which I hope we will be able to publish in written form eventually.
> In it, Dr. Ellis tells us that there are many reasons for White people to
> hope that they are going to succeed in their struggle for freedom and
> independence. He further adds that we need to emphasize these hopeful signs,
> since darkest gloom and inevitable doom are poor ways to inspire folks to
> action.
>
> He notes that that, despite threatening demographic trends, there are more
> White people alive now than at any time in history. He could have added
> that, despite massive pro-mixing propaganda, high school and college
> lunchrooms are as segregated as ever and so are 90% of marriage beds -- and
> many neighborhoods. The fight for racial panmixia for everyone but
> themselves that the Jews have launched is a fight against Nature -- and it's
> very hard to win when Nature is your foe.
>
> Dr. Ellis notes that, all over the world, people of many races are awakening
> to the fraudulent and dangerous nature of Jewish power, and are reacting
> against it. A substantial reduction in Jewish power means victory for
> Whites, even if many of those fighting Jewish power are not White. Europe
> bridles at Zionist wars and begins to resist Jew-led Islamicization. A
> billion Muslims want to remove the cancer just as much as we do. Many of
> these people are racialist for themselves already and care not a whit if
> White people want their own racially-based societies too.
>
> Dr. Ellis gives us a powerful example from his own life. In his profession,
> he deals with the psychological problems of his patients, many of whom are
> not White. And he did excellent work, and was loved by his patients and his
> patients' parents. When Jews and multiracialists discovered his membership
> in the National Alliance, they started a pressure campaign all over his home
> state, Alaska, to make it impossible for him to find work, in an attempt to
> ruin him. They caused him some losses, but he remains unbowed -- and he also
> remains employed. When certain facilities would no longer use his services,
> many of his clients were enraged. Dr. Ellis was the best man for their
> children, the angry clients wrote. They said that they wanted Dr. Ellis or
> they wanted no one. Only Dr. Ellis would do. Yes, they had read the scare
> stories planted by the Jews that Dr. Ellis was a "nazi," that he was such an
> overwhelmingly evil White man that he actually believed that his race was
> fit to live. But those stories didn't matter at all to those people -- and
> those people, those complaining patients, were themselves almost entirely
> non-White. And they demanded the return of Dr. Ellis. That was the moment
> that Dr. Ellis realized that we had won -- that we had actually already won
> the war. Everything from this point forward is just detail, just skirmishes
> on the way to a Yiddish Waterloo. Dr. Ellis's optimism contains as much
> truth, I think, as Dr. Oliver's pessimism.
>
> So what is best for us; optimism or pessimism? To answer that, let me frame
> our racial situation, in vastly simplified form, in a little parable.
>
> You are dozing on a railroad track. Beside you lay a paperback novel, your
> young daughter, and Jacques Derrida (the Jewish "deconstructionist"
> "philosopher"). You awaken and see that a train is visible on the horizon,
> approaching you on the very track where you sit. You see the train coming.
> Your daughter sees the train coming, and says "Daddy, the train is coming;
> I'm afraid."
>
> You reply, "Do not worry, my dear; we shall get off the tracks. There is
> nothing to worry about."
>
> Derrida raises his finger and says with a self-important air, "Nothing to
> worry about, indeed! And there is no need to move, at least not so quickly.
> Have you not heard of Zeno, who taught us that we can never get from point A
> to point B? So it is with the train. It will take a infinity of time for the
> train to get here. And besides, there is much to be gained and learned from
> experiencing the approach of the train, is there not? And even though many
> trains are made of steel, it is pure prejudice to assume that this one is.
> For all you know, it is made of marshmallows, and you must judge it on an
> individual basis. Allow it to come closer before making a biased decision!
> And, while you're at it, toss me your wallet so as to pay me for my profound
> philosophical advice." As he lectures you and your daughter, Derrida moves
> off the tracks to a safe distance.
>
> So, foolishly taking Derrida's advice, you stay on the tracks, calm your
> daughter, and take up the novel and read while waiting for the train to get
> closer so you can "judge it fairly." Derrida is fairly beaming, though still
> exhorting you for your whole wallet, as you only tossed him a fifty.
>
> But the approaching train cannot be ignored. Its engines and whistle are
> deafening and it looms above you, blotting out half the sky. At the last
> moment, you realize that Derrida was lying and you have been a fool. You
> grab your daughter and leap out of the way of the train. And you weep no
> tears when Derrida, in a last-ditch effort to hold you on the rails and get
> your wallet, suffers the same fate he had intended for you. His skull is
> crushed by the mighty locomotive, which is most assuredly not made of
> marshmallows. Calmly, you take the time to examine his pockets, and end up
> recovering a substantial fortune in stolen wallets and jewels, which you
> return to their rightful heirs.
>
> The moment when the train was about to hit -- the moment you finally made
> the right decision -- can't properly be called a moment of optimism or
> pessimism. It was a moment of realism. It was a moment -- at long last -- of
> real consciousness. You knew the horrible consequences of staying on the
> rails. You finally saw through the old liar who was trying to keep you there
> so he could bleed you and feast on your corpse. That wasn't pessimism,
> because you at the same moment saw that these consequences were not
> inevitable. You saw what you could do about them.
>
> And when you saw what you could do to save your daughter and yourself -- and
> did it -- that was not optimism. That was not just daydreaming about a happy
> valley and believing that it's true, while about to go under the wheels. No.
> That moment of clarity and action was eminently realistic and the actions
> taken were practical and effective.
>
> We need a dose of optimism, in the sense that we need to constantly assess
> and evaluate all the positive forces and facts that we have in our arsenal,
> so that we can utilize them effectively when opportunities inevitably arise.
> Doing so gives hope -- and hope and a positive attitude, an attitude that
> success can indeed be achieved, are essential for success in every
> endeavor -- especially in recruiting people for the only Cause that really
> matters.
>
> We need a dose of pessimism, too, in the sense that we need to be constantly
> reminded of the very great forces arrayed against us, so that we may take
> them seriously, evaluate them realistically, and bear in mind always the
> great responsibility we bear for our children's future, about which no other
> race, no other people, is going to care about but us. In a hostile and
> competitive world, we must use all our power and our genius to secure that
> future.
>
> In short, integral pessimism and integral optimism lead us astray. What we
> need is realism and clarity about the realities of our own nature and the
> world about us. And I think we also need hope. And the greatest source of
> hope is not a fatuous "everything's gonna be all right" mantra. It is the
> realization that we create the future by our own concerted actions. And so
> we will get off the track of death -- and the hazards we avoid will most
> likely consume those who tried to trap us there. And, free once again and
> awakened forever, we will make a new and better world for future
> generations.
>
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