The Jewish Question

The Jewish Question is by far the most contentious issue in the White Nationalist community. Being a veteran of the movement (stuckment?) for a decade, I couldn’t begin to count the number of times that contention over the issue has dissolved coalitions, ended productive conversations, and led to censorship of one kind or another. To Hunter Wallace’s credit, Occidental Dissent has become a true rarity on the Internet, a place where people with a range of perspectives on the JQ are politely discussing it.

I’m not sure how he accomplishes it. Some people contend that he logs in under a variety of aliases and performs an elaborate sock puppet routine of debating against himself. Those people are stupid, but I don’t have a better explanation for how he is managing to accomplish the impossible. I also don’t have any idea how long it will last. While we do have this window of opportunity, I hope some of you will consider my own thoughts on this matter, which don’t really fit in either the “philo-Semitic” or “anti-Semitic” camps.

The facts clearly indicate that Jews are directing our foreign policy, running Hollywood, controlling our media, and dominating our academic institutions. While I always make a point to be patient with the ignorant, I don’t think intelligent people who’ve seriously researched this issue can honestly dismiss the disproportionate role Jews currently have in managing Western Civilization. Personally, I suspect that those who do are often engaging in some sort of “deep game”, one which relies on cultivating a better relationship with our overlords.

But proof that they’re in control isn’t necessarily proof of malice, conspiracy, or causation. Honestly, a lot of the impotent rage toward Jews among the anti-Semites does look and smell an awful lot like the impotent rage that Black advocates like Rev. Wright direct at White folks. Just as some Black Nationalists can swing absolutely any Black problem back to White oppression, some White Nationalists can swing absolutely any White problem back to Jewish oppression. Most problematic of all, these same White Nationalists very often convince themselves that we’re helpless victims, a paralyzing conclusion. It can be, as BNP leader Darby put it recently, little more than a comfortable bed to lie on.

Many anti-Semites rely on the AIDS analogy, explaining that Jews suppress our civilization’s natural impulse to defend its borders, uphold its traditions, and preserve its racial integrity. Allow me to propose an equally unflattering but perhaps more apt analogy: shingles. Most healthy people have had chicken pox and have the the strain of herpes which caused it. If their immune systems are compromised, the typically dormant virus can become active, appearing to be “the” problem. In actuality, the shingles outbreak isn’t the cause; it’s the effect.

Every major civilization has Jews in it. Only ours is completely managed by them. Why did the Jewish colonies in China and India fail to follow the Western template? I propose that it’s because both China and India have their own indigenous managerial castes: Mandarins and Brahmans. The Jews, being a managerial caste, don’t really have an available niche there. The job of managing grain surpluses, keeping the records, and administering the crippling complexity that comes with mature civilizations is already performed by competent and entrenched indigenous elites.

To understand why Jews became the West’s managerial caste requires only that we understand when they started to become our managerial caste. The revolt against the Catholic Church which was triggered by the invention of the printing press and led by Martin Luther (a rabid anti-Semite, himself) toppled the managerial “caste” which had been at the helm of Western Civilization since the Classical Period. Into the power vacuum? Jews.

While Nietzsche was far from a proponent of either Christianity or the Catholic Church, his diagnosis of the root of modernity in the death of God was succinct. It wasn’t some literal “death of God”, but the implosion of the Group Evolutionary Strategy of the West, Christianity, which was the cause of our predicament. The Protestants who believed that they were relieving themselves of a corrupt and exploitative priesthood were only castrating their indigenous priesthood and sending themselves into subjugation to a new one. The myriad Christian sects refrained from literal control under the illusion that the people could control themselves. The “Enlightenment” was little more than the sunlight one enjoys when being transferred from one dungeon to another.

This perspective, which borrows heavily from MacDonald, Gottfried, and assorted Traditionalists, is what I call “evolutionary traditionalism”. One might be able to see now why my focus is less on Jewish behavior and more on the behavior of ourselves and our elites. The Jews, while being omnipresent, are really beside the point. Mere awareness of Jewish behavioral patterns and their potential threat to our society is insufficient, as Martin Luther demonstrated. We need a robust GES and a competent vanguard of indigenous elites prepared to implement and enforce it.

That’s my answer to the Jewish Question.