7th August
The nature of antisemitism is what?
If we take it to mean people lashing out in anger against perceived realities they somehow find in the Jews, then the Protocols is alarmingly antisemitic. But we are lashing out at traits personified.
In other words: Give to a people the world it desires (in the case of the reactionary Russians we just need to reintroduce serfdom), and the fire dies out. The Jew itself was just a mask.
Antisemitism is a dark theme in our lives, a ghoul from the borderlands between psychology and cognition.
We persecute character traits which we feel threatens to unravel our social structure.
There is no ideology which can claim to not constitute a weakening of at least some society. Pacifism? A demoralising threat to countries fighting for their survival. Liberalism? A threat to the loyalism that glues the layers of society together. Conservatism? A threat to the individualism that makes a Liberal society strong. Socialism? A threat to the religious strength that furnishes our lives with direction.
If you use force against the transgressors, you threaten the peaceful solving of problems and if you use polemics against them, your appeasement threatens the sternness with which order must be kept.
There is no winning.
From that point on everything becomes meagre political psychologism. Take the middle road, only desire what is commercially beneficial and establish peace through trade. The latter reveals a belief in hedonism and desire for financial security as the basic human needs.
Basic perhaps, but I doubt they are fundamental.
And at any rate, lump people together in a society, and within a few weeks, the social brain takes over.
Now every creed will have its antichrist and its Jews who threaten order.
The road out of antisemitism? Understand it and enjoy the aftershock. You have a few moments of clarity before a dendrite God pulls a pillow over your head and smothers the only real liberty any of us will experience in a lifetime. Before words belies the truth.
8th August
Pedestrian. I will just get on with it.
Somehow Golovinski seems to have learned the lesson from Marx. The very words with which we discuss must be marked with the number of the beast. As weapons they must be pointing towards ourselves.
Protocol 8
● Rig the entire vocabulary so people can only confirm the state of affairs. ● Attract as many experts as possible, but only if their minds have been polluted with rigged theories.
| Protocol 8 | Subtext | Dialogue 7 |
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We must secure all instruments which our enemies might turn against us. |
the essential is to employ against one’s adversaries all of the weapons that they employ against you. |
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We shall have recourse to the most intricate and complicated expressions of the dictionary of law in order to acquit ourselves in case we are forced to give decisions, which may seem overbold and unjust. |
One does not speak against the hegemony. | Not content to rely upon the violent force of democracy, I would like to borrow from the subtleties of the law their most learned resources. When one makes decisions that could appear unjust or reckless, |
For it will be important to express such decisions in so forcible a manner, that they should seem to the populace to be of the highest moral, equitable and just nature. |
The bank always wins. | it is essential to know how to enunciate them in good terms, to support them with the most elevated reasons that derive from morality and the law. |
The Protocols are for the time being in lockstep with the Dialogue, except Dialogue seems to be covered by Protocol 7 and 8, perhaps also a bit of 9.
Drivel.
The shortest summary of how the conservative (or rather, the Orthodox Christian) mind views the human sciences which displaced the world he knew.
It is all a clever trick serving to wiggle ourselves out of our place in the world with impunity.
Sophistry that supplants black with white and white with black.
I feel remorse for the wounded animal howling in agony.
For better or worse, the people took over the management of the world, and like Montesquieu suspects, they are not about to go back.
The mad prophecy of the Protocols which taints the liberal success story in bleak colours of unknown serfdom, like a 19th century version of The Matrix’s dark vision, is a stain we will have to live with, and frankly, given the lunacy of the project, something we shrug off easily.
And that is a shame, because for reasons much more advanced than Matvei Golovinski could ever have known, the prophecy has a claim to reality which we ought to find disturbing. He just never understood the philosophies that he was attacking.
| Protocol 8 | Subtext | Dialogue 7 |
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Our government must be surrounded by all the powers of civilisation among which it will have to act. It will draw to itself publicists, lawyers, practitioners, administrators, diplomats, and finally people prepared in our special advanced schools. |
Protocols added ‘special schools’ | The power of which I dream – quite far from having barbaric customs, as you can see – must attract to it all the forces and the talents of the civilization in the heart of which it lives. It must surround itself with publicists, lawyers, jurisconsults, practical men and administrators, |
These people will know the secrets of social life; they will master all languages put together by political letters and words; they will be well acquainted with the inner side of human nature, with all its most sensitive string, on which they will have to play. |
people who thoroughly know all the secrets, all the motives of social life; who speak all the languages, who have studied man in all his milieus. |
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| These strings form the construction of the Gentile brain, their good and bad qualities, their tendencies and vices, the peculiarity of castes and classes. | Sociological and economical awareness | |
| Of course these wise counsellors of our might to whom I allude will not be selected from amongst the Gentiles, who are used to carry on their administrative work without bearing in mind the results which they have to achieve, and without knowing for what purpose these results are required. The administrators of the Gentiles sign papers without reading them, and serve for love of money or ambition. | It is necessary to take them everywhere, no matter where, because such people render astonishing services through the ingenious procedures that they apply to politics. |
Golovinski had to face something that probably was in its infancy in Joly’s time: Marxism. Adding to the powerful corrosive forces of liberalism was Marx’ social economics. It frustrated Hitler as well as Golovinski how you could argue for hours with these people without moving them an inch.
They had both stood face to face with a new kind of opponent. The intellectual.
| Protocol 8 | Subtext | Dialogue 7 |
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We will surround our government by a whole host of economists. That is the reason why science of economy is the principal subject taught to the Jews. We will be surrounded by thousands of bankers, traders, and, what is still more important, by millionaires, because in reality everything will be decided by money. |
Dialogue: Capitalism Protocols: Marxism |
It is necessary to bring along with them a world of economists, bankers, industrialists, capitalists, men of vision and millionaires, because everything will actually be resolved by numbers. |
Meanwhile, as long as it is not yet safe to fill government posts with our brother Jews, we will entrust these important posts to people whose record and characters are so bad as to form a gulf between the nation and themselves, and to such people who, in case they disobey our orders, may expect judgment and imprisonment. And all this is with the object that they should defend our interests until the last breath has passed out of their bodies. |
As for the principal positions of leadership, the principal departments of power: one must arrange things so as to give them to men whose antecedents and characters place an abyss between them and other men, each of whom only expects death or exile in case of a change of government or the necessity of defending all that exists to their last breaths. |
It comes across as naive at this point. For now I am calm. They both have plenty of time to reach a crescendo.
PARADISE LOST