All I really know of [April Gaede, mother of Lamb and Lynx of Prussian Blue] is what I have seen in various documentaries that have featured her and her family...and what I have seen in these pieces is a woman who has some sort of cultic fixation on "pop-Nazism" and seems to think that superficial canards about 'blood and soil', swastika cattle brands, and Dungeons and Dragons-style viking themed Hatecore somehow equates to genuine 'culture'.
I suggest you check out the Spiegel interview with Sohlzenitsyn that Bardamu posted yesterday. Sohlzenitsyn makes the point that a 'national idea' is not something that can be ideologically cultivated by political parties and/or the public bureaucracy...nor can it be cultivated by self-styled ideologues who harbor palpable (yet amorphous and vague) resentment against the multicultural/managerial state. I think that a lot of these self-styled 'Nationalists' would be well served to meditate on Sohlzenitsyn's insights...but I'm not going to hold my breath.
At the end of the day, there is basic congruence between Traditionalists, Nationalists, and PaleoCons of different faiths, different linguistic-cultural traditions, and different historical traditions...but congruence should not be conflated with perfect fungibility. The reason why it is paramount (from a theoretical perspective) to treat the 'West' as a Gestalt of proximate culture-forms is because the proverbial center cannot hold in a house not only divided, but under active siege by history's demolition squad...the reason is not because we are all one big happy family of 'White' that are bound by our dislike of Black crime in American cities and some sort of childish affinity for Third Reich meets Heavy Metal fantasy sorts of images.
Finally, and I don't want to preach here, but the fixation of people like Ms. Gaede about race qua race is really sort of vulgar. I think that Russel Kirk hit the mark when he observed that Tradition is something that is above ideology...its epistemologically unique and it can only be appreciated as a linear-historical phenomenon. Humans 'need' Tradition to be fully human, in other words. The reasons why thoughtful people tend to react with such profound emotion when their Traditions are threatened, dismantled or otherwise vilified is because on some basic, level, their humanity is being affronted. This entire conflict (and make no mistake, it is a genuine conflict) is rather cheapened when it is appropriated by middle American Proles like Ms. Gaede who think that we can appreciate the current social-political milieu in terms of niggers are after the White women, Hitler was cool, swastikas are good luck, and Jews are using the Blacks against us. Ultimately, April Gaede (and the rest of the 'WN Movement') never really got the memo that the culture never belonged to her ilk in the first place.
I guess if April bakes enough Swastika cakes on Uncle Adolf's b-day, passes out enough Prussian Blue cds, and plasters enough 'Hitler was Right!" bumper stickers on lampposts, then demographic collapse and cultural decrepitude will no longer be in the cards.
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Further in the thread: Its not more reasoned, its just less caustic. The 'White Nationalist' reaction to the multicult is a mirror image of the multicult. Its a sneering, powerless "oh yeah? We got that too!". BigMedia has teenybopper girl acts, WN comes up with their own cut rate imitation. Policy planning orgs and Law Enforcement indulge in fearmongering about vestigial 'White Supremicism", Dave the Duke says "oh yeah!" and pens a screed called "Jewish Supremicism".
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Political-Capitalism vs. White Nationalism is Coke v. Pepsi...except the "Pepsi" in the equation is some bathtub swill whipped up by an unemployed meth chemist and bottled in greasy pickle jars and nobody drinks it except the crazies and the locals who are just trying to be polite.
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A genuinely Traditionalist-Conservative movement would be aiming to encourage people to secede from popular-cultural influences. It wouldn't be endorsing the format of Establishment media outlets while bait-and-switching the content. The format of mass-media is one of the main reasons it is so caustic...its not simply a matter of Pavlovian content.
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Pop-music (even the staggeringly bad, Neo-Nazi version) is a form of crude, commodified mass culture. When I think about cultural preservation, I don't think about teenybopper music acts...be it mass distributed ditties by fuck-muppets like Christina Aguilera, or underproduced, virtually non-distributed acoustic covers of old Skrewdriver tunes performed by future strippers/truck stop waitresses.
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[White Nationalism] is bizarre. 'Culture' isn't "we're the White people and we like NASCAR and don't like rap music. That is 'culture' as defined by Madison Avenue and HBO Original Politics. Its the functional equivalent of Androidfag Cooper and the rest of MSM touting Barack Obama to Black America as "see, he is Black like you. You are all the Black people and this is what your interests are."
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Culture is a linear-historical phenomenon that is rooted in parentage and memorial experience overtime. It isn't defined by target market demographics (i.e. you're the "White people" and this is what you like to watch/eat/buy), and it isn't a matter of group-anatomy.
