by William Pierce

Big business, including those sectors of it relatively free of

Jewish control, is in favor of continued non-White immigration as a

means of maintaining a plentiful supply of relatively inexpensive

labor.

As depressing as the situation is among the military rank

and file, it is even worse among the higher military leaders. A

weeding-out program during the past 30 years has virtually

eliminated career officers above the rank of captain who are willing

to express any disagreement with the racial program imposed on

the U.S. armed services. Eliminated with them has been any

realistic hope of a military solution to America’s internal political

and racial problems.

Those who are working for the West’s ruin know well the

psychology of mass man; they know how tenaciously materialistic

he is, how he will cling to his comforts and luxuries at the expense

of his honor, his freedom, and even his life, deceiving himself all

the while as to his own motives. Perhaps the very best example of

this fatal weakness is provided by the behavior in recent years of

the Whites of Rhodesia and South Africa, a subject treated

elsewhere in this [1980] issue of National Vanguard.

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It is true that the world—including the rest of the West—

ganged up on them; it is true that they are saddled with twice as

many Jews, per capita, as the people of the United States; it is true

that they were stabbed in the back by the Christian churches, in

which they had foolishly placed their trust; it is true that their news

media are controlled by the same gang which controls ours. But the

fact remains that the Whites of southern Africa have, with their

eyes wide open, chosen prosperity over racial integrity. As a

consequence, in the long run they shall have neither.

The same shopkeeper mentality which made them fear an

economic boycott more than the mongrelizing of their posterity

prevails throughout the West. It is the mentality of what historian

Brooks Adams has called “economic man”; men of this type have

wielded power in the West since the Industrial Revolution, and

their values are shared as well by most of the powerless. The

values and way of thinking of economic man may be tolerable for a

while in an all-White world, but they are lethal in a world which

also includes Jews. In the very near future they will be just as lethal

for America and Europe as they have been for White Rhodesia.

In view of these trends—trends which transcend party

politics and the short-term fluctuations of changing government

administrations, trends which show every promise of remaining

unchanged in the years ahead, indeed, of becoming increasingly

worse—there can be little room for debate as to whether the West

will go under. It has already passed the point of no return in its

descent. The water is up to our necks, and the only question is,

when will it reach our noses.

The ship, in other words, is going down, and it is going

down not just because the captain doesn’t know how to sail and

because there is a gang of saboteurs aboard who have opened the

sea cocks, but also because it has become irreparably unseaworthy.

Now, this is a very important conclusion. It separates the

National Alliance from the right wingers, who believe there’s still

time to save the ship (or, if there isn’t, all is lost and so there’s no

point in doing anything); from the liberals, who believe that the

more water the ship takes on the better it will sail; and from the

mass of voters, who, although they have a dark suspicion that

something is seriously wrong and a nagging fear that the captain

doesn’t know what he’s doing, are much more concerned that their

feet are getting wet than that the ship is going down.

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The most important distinction for the Alliance is the first

one. The right wingers see the value of the West in its outward

forms: its governments, its economic systems, its life-styles. When

those are broken up—when the ship of state goes down—there is,

for them, nothing left.

But the National Alliance sees the value of the West in its

biological essence, in the human genetic material which was

responsible for the building of Western civilization—and which has

the capability of building another civilization to replace it. When

the ship goes down, there will be lots of passengers in the water,

and they will drown. What is important is to make certain that

some passengers—the right ones—are in lifeboats, with a compass,

oars, and directions to the nearest land.

The events of recent years must be depressing in the

extreme for intelligent conservatives and right wingers. Unless they

are blind to what is happening in the world, they must feel utterly

overwhelmed by the prospect of trying to patch the old tub up and

keep it afloat. For those of them who are racially conscious, the

realization that each passing year brings us a population that is

more mongrelized, an electorate that is more degraded in its

sensibilities, must be terribly discouraging. How can one salvage

such a mess?

To be sure, after accepting the view that the mess can’t be

salvaged and that one shouldn’t even try, the prospect is no less

grim. The breakdown of order, the unleashing of anarchy, is

destructive of true human progress even under the mildest of

conditions. In the racially mixed urban jungle of America it will be

indescribably terrible. There will be a grisly justice in that most

Whites who have collaborated with the enemies of the West in

sinking it will themselves be drowned. It is almost amusing to

contemplate the fate of the White gun-control advocates in

America’s cities in the days to come, when they will be even more

at the mercy of roving gangs of Black thugs than they are today.

And the rich White liberals in their exclusive suburbs—the

fashionable writers, the ACLU lawyers, the pulpit prostitutes, the

organizers of fund-raising dinners for trendy causes, the socially

conscious coupon clippers who won’t own stocks in corporations

doing business in South Africa, the news editors who

conscientiously excise any mention of race from crime stories, the

school board members who pretend that all is well in the racially

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integrated hells they supervise, the overpaid bureaucrats, the

cokesnorting sophisticates who party with the new non-White elite and

plan to ride high while their race goes down—will fare no better

when the pets they have so long boosted as the “equals” of

working-class Whites come surging out of the cities in their

multihued millions. The ravages of these pampered non-White

hordes in the years ahead will make the sadistic butchery of the

Manson gang of the last decade seem like good, clean fun in

comparison.

Unfortunately, the innocent and the wholesome will perish

along with the guilty and the degenerate; the racially conscious and

the racially valuable will go down with the deracinated egoists and

the half-breeds. Nature’s justice operates at the species and

subspecies levels.

Nor will anyone evade the suffering ahead, neither those

who perish by it nor those who survive it, neither the grasshoppers

nor the ants. It is said that suffering is good for the soul; if this is

true, Westerners can look forward to a great deal of spiritual

improvement.

But whether the maxim is true or not, the suffering is

necessary. As long as he is moderately comfortable, the average

man will not change his ways. Only when existence becomes utterly

intolerable and there is no alternative can he be persuaded to do

what he should have done from foresight and through self-discipline

at the beginning. That is his unalterable nature, and it is

why democracy is such a catastrophe.

And who will survive to be the founders of a New Order?

No one can say, on a person-by-person basis. But if one

understands the nature of the tragedy that is upon us, one can state

some general guidelines.

The first thing to understand about the going under of the

West is that its more dramatic elements, the violence and the

bloodshed, are not the really essential elements. The essential

aspect of what is happening to the West is spiritual. It is decadence

which has sealed the fate of the West, not the birthrate in the Third

World. It is the absence of a common purpose which has sapped

the West’s viability, not just the scheming of the Jews. It is the loss

of racial consciousness which has left the West defenseless, not the

growing strength of our enemies.

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What is important is that the corruption of the West’s spirit

will continue in the years ahead—perhaps for decades—while the

increasing anarchy, the more frequent breakdowns of order and

flareups of violence, the economic disintegration, will be only

incidental. There undoubtedly will come a great bloodletting, a

time of mass throat-cutting and mass rape, when the West’s

internal enemies will have free rein for a while. But the West will

already have sunk before then.

And most of the inhabitants of the West will have sunk too,

to the point where little of value will be left to be lost in the

bloodletting. This is a point worth emphasizing again: the majority

will perish with the civilization to which they are inseparably

bound.

The problem is not to cull out the mongrels, the Judaized,

the degenerates, the moral prostitutes from a healthy mass, so that

the cull can be destroyed and the mass saved. The problem is to

pick the few who embody the best of what the West once was and

to take the necessary measures to see that that which they embody

does not perish with the mass.

Those who would survive—more correctly, those who

would have a hand in determining which genes and which values

survive, for the time scale of the West’s sinking is such that no

individual now alive can be sure of living to see the new age

dawn—must have these qualities:

They must be both willing and able to fight for the right to

determine the shape of the future; the meek and the disarmed will

vanish without a trace.

They must be free of the superstitions and prejudices of this

age; those who are mentally bound to this age will go down with it.

They must be pure in spirit and strong in will; this is the age

of egoism and materialism, of self-indulgence and permissiveness,

but the passage into the new age demands both selflessness and

self-discipline.

They must be united in an organization which combines

their strengths and focuses their wills; in this age of atomized

individuals, where each person is submerged in the mass, without

identity and without power, only those who are united can prevail.

They must be motivated by a single purpose, the

overwhelming importance of which is always foremost in their

minds; it has been the purposelessness of this age on which the

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West has foundered, but the new age will be illuminated and

shaped by a common purpose transcending all other considerations:

namely, the purpose of bringing forth a higher type of man and

attaining thereby a higher level of consciousness in the universe.

__________________

Note of the Ed. This is an abridged version of ‘Why the West

Will Go Under’ published at National Vanguard (no. 74, 1980). I have

added the italics to the article.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5153055&forum_id=2#44847721)

we need a lot less prescience, a lot more fertilizer bombs (in Minecraft)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5153055&forum_id=2#49827518)