Morality and Others

In the present day there is much heaving, breast-beating and hyperventilation among liberals over the fact that European white men 'stole' the lands of native Americans. I think this is an interesting accusation for several reasons, not the least of which is the Marquis de Sade's correct observation that all real property ownership is a result of theft, because all such ownership, with the possible exception of a few remote troglyditic enclaves, has come into being as a result of conquest. The logical implication of this, of course, is that the ultimate basis of property ownership is simply the law of the jungle, and that those who are strong enuf to take something have a 'right' to own it. Might makes right, as the old saying goes.

De Sade's observation is interesting because it constitutes what could be called an act of philosophical sadism that makes the professors of morality squirm in their seats: It rips asunder the veil of self-satisfied pseudo-morality that gets preached from the pulpits every Sunday and from the academic lecterns Monday thru Friday, and makes us realize that 'God is on our side' only as long as we have the biggest guns. Even more interesting, however, is the fact that De Sade's observation makes us ask where power ends and morality begins, or whether morality is just a treacle-word for what can only be described as naked power that has simply put on a negligee.

In thinking the matter over, I have concluded that the only reasonable way to characterize morality is that it is the set of rules we use in dealing with our own group -- the 'in-group', 'Us' or 'Ourselves' -- whereas naked power is what we use in dealing with outsiders to our group -- the 'out-groups', 'Them' or 'Others'. This, then, explains why murder is a capital crime among our own, but killing 'Injuns' or 'natives' or whoever has rarely if ever posed a serious moral problem. But if we have resolved the question of distinguishing the laws of morality from the law of the jungle, this forces us to confront an even more difficult problem, and one which has become particularly acute in the present day: Who is Us, and who is Them? This was once a simple problem -- Us was the tribe or village we belonged to, and Them was everybody else. But as the world has gradually gotten smaller, the size of tribes has increased to the point that we now sometimes speak of the Global Village. Certainly this is nowhere more evident than on the Internet, where a webmaster such as myself may receive messages from persons in a dozen different countries overnight.

The liberal breast-beating over the conquest of America which we mentioned earlier is an example of the present divergence of opinion over the Us-Them question. For liberals, the difference between Us and Them is broad and indefinite, and embraces not only all races, ethnicities. ages and sexualities, but also children (treating them as adults), the mentally and physically handicapped (treating them as normals), criminals (except those guilty of 'hate crimes'), and often animals ("Save the whales") and plants (the Monkey-Wrench-Gang environmentalists). These are the folks who are hungering after World Government and the New World Order, and will have little trouble embracing as 'Us' the aliens from Alpha Centauri. The only question is, Will they embrace Donovan's Brain when it tries to direct their lives from its electrode-studded jar?

While it would be wrong to say that all White Liberationists -- aka 'white nationalists', or just 'nationalists' -- have uniform opinions on the Us-Them question, all of them agree that the white race should be preserved because it is a unique reservoir of genes which have enabled mankind to reach its highest form of development so far. Likewise, many if not most White Liberationists would agree that the national characteristics of various white groups -- particularly language and culture -- should also be preserved as much as possible. Beyond this, many White Liberationists would also agree that other races have a moral right to their own preservation -- an interesting departure from applying morality strictly to one's own group, or rather an interesting development in defining the Us-Them relationship. But the point here is that White Liberationists see the white race as Us, and hence the proper place for the application of moral rules, but do not necessarily embrace blacks, browns, Judah or Islam as being part of the Us category.

While I do not consider it my role to try to determine for other whites how the Us-Them divide should be made, there are certain relevant facts that need to be kept in mind. The main one is that the blacks, browns, Jews and Islamics are all waging racial warfare against whites -- in the case of Jews and Islamics, for centuries. By saying this I do not intend to impute blame to any group; for racial warfare is a natural component of the struggle for survival, and if whites wish to survive, they must recognize this warfare and engage the enemy. Liberals, of course, are blind to this warfare, because they are so busy having warm fuzzy relationships with all the nice foreigners and racial auslanders that they cannot see the forest fire for the trees.

Another fact relevant to considering the Us-Them divide is that the Jews in Israel are seeking Lebensraum for their people in the same way that Hitler was seeking it for HIS people; so that those who have no moral objection to Hitler's view of the Jewish Bolsheviks as Others become hypocrites when they wring their hands over Jews treating the Palestinians as Others, particularly since the Pals are merely another group of Others as far as most White Liberationists are concerned. The important point here, however, is not about hypocrisy, but rather morality: Because morality does not extend to Others, neither the Nazis nor the Israelis violated morality by taking land from Others, at least by their own lights. Furthermore, it is inconsistent of White Liberationists to extend the status of Us to the Pals vis-à-vis the Israelis, but not to extend the same status to them vis-à-vis whites.

A third point relevant to the Us-Them divide is that it may close rather rapidly if we happen to be invaded by ETs; for then most people will be willing to join with the rest of the world in an effort to repel the invaders no matter what low opinion they may hold of other races, creeds or cultures. In fact, it has recently been suggested that such an 'invasion' has already been planned by the New World Orderlies in an effort to institute a world government -- an event which is to be created by holograms of 'invaders' projected into the sky that are supposed to make the people think the invasion is real. Whether this is the latest invention sprung from the brow of the Iron Mountain Boys, or just an inventive Internet update of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, I do not know; but having already seen proof that most wars and war-like conflicts have been staged by politicians with ulterior motives, usually financial, including 9/11 and the present unpleasantness in Iraq, and knowing from the exposure of Operation Northwoods the depths to which men will go in the service of personal aggrandizement, there is little at this point in time which will leave me much surprised.

I think it is useful to realize that, as a society grows richer, there is a certain inclination toward tolerance of Others, and thus a certain tendency toward what we might call 'creeping Us-ism', i.e., a movement toward embracing more and more Others as part of Us. In the leanest times, we can take care of only ourselves or our families; when we are less poor, we can give alms to those who are poorer; when we are wealthy we can give liturgies -- i.e., fund public works -- as well-off citizens did in ancient Greece; when society is wealthy it can afford to provide bread and circuses for the masses, or welfare and 'uplifting' for negroes; and when we are the wealthiest society in the world, we can expend our national treasure on saving spotted owls and 'spreading democracy' to the far corners of the earth. In all these cases we see an expansion of the boundaries of 'Us', where they are made to include an increasing number of people or other objects. And while this may appeal to the liberal tendency to 'love everyone', it places an increasing burden on the remainder of Us to tolerate the differences we see in the 'old Others'. There is, of course, no formula for deciding how much is too much, and thus no clear rule to decide where the line between Us and Them should be drawn; for even the closest people on the planet -- married couples -- can have violent disagreements. However, history has shown that the happiest assemblages of people are those which are racially homogeneous, so that the tendency to expand the Us line beyond the race is at least a dangerous one.

In closing, we should note that a liberal society with an ever-expanding definition of Us is a society with a dangerous weakness that invites exploitation by Others, and particularly by Others who are well-organized and who have had themselves accepted as Us. Certainly this has happened with Jews, whose exploitation of the bounteous richness of America has reached legendary proportions -- and billions upon billions of dollars. But there is another weakness of a liberal society besides the possibility of exploitation, which is that without enemies, a society lets down its guard and becomes vulnerable to attack. Von Moltke had this idea in mind when he praised warfare as both a noble practice and one necessary for defense of country: One cannot have good skill in warfare unless one actually engages in it. While I am not one to think that every man needs a dueling scar to prove his manhood, as was the belief in 19th century Germany of which Von Moltke was a product, I think we must at least find ways of teaching men how to become warriors, and of imbuing them with a sense of who constitutes Us and the realization that they may be required to do battle with Others.

Oh -- and one other thing: Would the liberals really have preferred that Europeans should never have come to America? Indeed, do they think that survival of the fittest is immoral? Perhaps we can be forgiven if we consider it a pity that liberals somehow managed to survive.

John Bryant

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