Roman busts

My favorite Roman busts are the ones that emphasize the individuality of the subject, not the idealized ones.  So, while visiting Rome and Vienna, I photographed a few exceptionally high-quality busts.  “These are realistic enough”, I thought, “that surely they can be put to good use.”
Then I remembered that a while ago I had cited a study that lent credence to our gut feelings about strangers based on their faces.  Now I am going to ask you, dear readers, to give your first impressions of the likely personalities of the following Romans. I photographed them in the Vatican Museum and in the Vien Museum in Vienna.   They are numbered for your convenience:

I

II

III

IIII

V

VI

VII

VIII

VIIII

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIIII

XV

XVI

XVII

For me, the underlying personality theme in the above portraits is pride/confidence/arrogance.  I am currently reading John Derbyshire’s book “We Are Doomed” and I came across this quote from Kenneth Clark, from his book “Civilization“:

Civilization requires a modicum of material prosperity – enough to provide a little leisure.  But, far more, it requires confidence – confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, and confidence in one’s own mental powers… So if one asks why the civilisation of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted.

I would add that the classical Romans were convinced of their own superiority over other peoples.  Over time they came to doubt this superiority and as their arrogance was compromised, so too was their civilization.

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African babies are a girl's best friend – by Portland Realist

My stepsister recently posted an announcement on facebook that read:

I think most of you have guessed that we are planning to adopt from Ethiopia, an HIV+ baby!!!!!! Too many promptings by the spirit on this one to say no 🙂

I had an economics professor that taught the laws of supply and demand using real world examples.  Dr. Gilbertie explained to us that the diamond industry was a cartel that was controlled mainly by a family that owned the Debeers corporation.  They controlled a substantial amount of the most lucrative diamond mines in the world, and were rumored to have warehouses with piles of diamonds, which is how they manipulated the supply. The interesting and most pertinent part however, was how they manipulated the demand.  Although diamonds were already quite expensive, they devised a very keen marketing scheme.  They gave actresses like Elizabeth Taylor expensive and very flashy diamond jewelry, necklaces, earrings, etc.  This made every woman in the modern world literally demand a diamond from the man that loved her.
Nowadays the starlets have a very different obsession and status symbol: African and or black babies.  Madonna, Angelina Jolie, you name it the big stars have to have a black baby!  The demand has been stoked, the supply however is quite available, through adoption or insemination, it is a “free market” success for those that have manipulated this state of affairs.  I for one, will not stand for it and will speak up against anyone in my family who will bring disease and more “diversity” that is, as we all know, a destructive force in our lives.
My stepsister by the way, has received numerous accolades for her decision.  She was flooded with dozens of positive comments and “likes”.  She will be at the same time Christ-like and Hollywood fashionable.   These are extremely powerful motivators, to stop this type of thing, we have our work cut out for us.

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Talmud for lawyers

On his blog, the revisionist review, Michael Hoffman protests a Missouri program in which lawyers receive continuing legal education credit for studying the Talmud.  In his view, anything related to the Talmud (and probably Jews) is evil and should not be tolerated.  Hoffman writes:

In the “seminar accredited for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) by the Missouri Bar” reported in the press release below, St. Louis, Missouri lawyers who attend will be schooled by Chabad rabbis in the Babylonian Talmuda handbook on lying, deceit and wrong-doing whichdesecrates the name and memory of Jesus Christ (Sanhedrin 43a; Gittin 57a), and His Blessed Mother Mary (Sanhedrin 106a; Kallah 51a), permits sex with children (Sanhedrin 69b in The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition [Random House, 1999] vol. 19, p. 13; also cf. Ketubot 11b and Sanhedrin 54b) and teaches that Judaic males are above God (Bava Metzia 59b).

I will not deny that the above passages can be found in the Talmud; I have already written about them here.  In a nutshell, the Talmud does not represent a monolithic set of beliefs.  It is a mixed bag, collected over hundreds of years and representing many (often contradictory) opinions.  Most of the passages cited above are of the genre called “Agadah“; they are not articles of faith but rather folklore, personal opinions and tall tales.  As for the “sex with children” part, which ancient texts can be held to modern, 21st century criteria and withstand the scrutiny unscathed?  Sure, the sexual morality of ancient Jews differed from that of modern Americans – but so did that of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians – and just about everybody else.
I do agree with Hoffman that there should be a separation of Synagogue and State just as there is (in theory) a separation of Church and State.  On that basis I would eliminate the above program.  I would add, however, that Talmud study does sharpen the mind and is likely to broaden one’s insight into tricky questions such as those listed in the above article.  The type of debate used in the Talmud forces the student into difficult mental exercises and challenges the limits of logical deduction, memory and linguistic skills.  It was quite a struggle for me, at least for the first couple of years.
Hoffman writes, regarding the Chabad sect:

Chabad (also known as “Chabad-Lubavitch”) is a Hasidic faction of Orthodox Judaism that derives its halacha (law) from the pagan-occult Zohar (Kabbalah), and the Babylonian Talmud, along with the sacred texts of the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Lyady. One of Rabbi Zalman’s texts, Tanya, teaches that the souls of gentiles “contain no good whatever” (Opening the Tanya, p. 43).

He is 100% on the mark here.  I was involved with Chabad for a few years in my youth and I can vouch for the accuracy of this statement.  It should be noted, however, that Chabad does not promote any form of proselytizing among non-Jews; their efforts are directed specifically at Jews and they have done a lot of good in bringing estranged Jews back to their roots (or, at least, some semblance of their roots).
A lot of people in the anti-Semitic crowd are similar to those on the Left; they see things in absolutes.  There is either black or white and nothing in-between.  Anti-Semites can see no good in Jews and the Left can see no good in white advocacy or race-realism.  Reality is far more complex than that.  It is full of various shades of gray.  Those who try to force their own ideologies upon reality are bound to reach bizarre conclusions and open themselves up to ridicule.

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A beat up junker totaled my Lamborghini

A commenter called Phil requested that I publish my thoughts on the murder of the young Jewess Lauren Burk by a black thug who was trying to rape her.  I told him my answer would have to wait until after I returned home from my travels.
Obviously the murder of a member of my own people by an animalistic low-life troubles me greatly.  I am certain that Phil knows this so perhaps he simply wants me to elaborate a bit more.
Men are naturally protective of their women.  Men are (should be) especially protective of the women of their own people.  I’ll be upfront and blunt in saying that the murder of an African Hutu woman does not bother me as much as the murder of a Jewess.  Also, the murder of a Jewess bothers me more than the murder of a gentile woman.  Yes, I rank people in value and I readily admit that a I value the lives of my own relatives more than those of strangers.  I grieve more when a close relative dies than when a stranger dies and I grieve more when a member of my own people dies than when an outsider dies.   I do not say this because Frank Salter did a good job in making this point in his book “On Genetic Interests” but because this has been my natural instinct my whole life and I have never encountered a good reason to question it.
The murder of those I deem valuable bothers me more than their demise by accident or through illness.  It is a shame when a Lamborghini breaks down.  It is more of a shame when it is totaled by a trashy, cheap car – especially when the cheap car escapes unscathed.  Black thugs are cheap, worthless people.  They are mass-produced and carry a negative value to society and no, it doesn’t matter to me if they can throw a ball through a hoop or knock out their opposition in the boxing ring.  Ah, but I can already hear people shaking their heads and asking, “but what about white thugs?  What about Jewish thugs?”  I don’t like thugs of any race – but it is black thugs, and their wigger wannabes, who are the demons of the day.  The world is not being overrun with Jewish thugs as I write.  It is not thuggish Jewish culture than is being glorified around the world and it is not Jews whom the world seeks to emulate.  Though there is an Italian mafia, it is not Italian sperm that is creating single mothers all over the world at an alarming rate.  Of course the Russian mafia is to be feared – but it is not Russian men who are being idolized by the media and thrust upon every Western society.  Though there are those who claim the “evil Jew” is behind all this, the creature that sets the tone for modern criminality is the thuggish black male.  He is symbolic of modern degeneracy.
So, while Jewish women are not necessarily paramounts of virtue – their potential, and the potential of their descendants, is far greater than that of thuggish black men.  Now, thanks to the animal tendencies of one black thug, Lauren Burk’s potential is gone and there is no greater tragedy than this in my eyes.  Though it is likely that, had Lauren Burk known me, she might find me despicable for any number of reasons.  But now she is dead and I hope her murderer dies a slow and painful death.

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Just a funny for today

I thought this was funny.  I found it on HBDchick’s blog:

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White genocide

I had a difficult day at work so I’m in the mood for a fight.  On second thought, I’ll settle for a debate and today’s victim will be Robert Lindsay.  Last month he published a post called “More Nonsense About ‘White Genocide‘”.  In a nutshell, his arguments are that:
1) Whites will not become extinct because not all of them will intermarry with the non-white multitudes that are brought to their shores.
2) “No one cares much about genetic “extinction” of various “pure” ethnic groups via voluntary intermarriage. Only lunatics like you guys. Races are not stable entities. They are changing all the time. It’s been that way all down through time.”
3)  “There have been efforts to “breed out” various “pure” races in the past via flooding with immigration and encouraging intermarriage, but no one cares much about it, except that it had a racist ideology. See the “Whitening” project in Brazil for instance.”
My response, henceforth directed toward Mr. Lindsay, is that nobody, not even the most extreme pro-white activist, can control whom his descendants will breed with over time.  He can have a powerful influence upon his children and maybe even upon his grandchildren but, sooner or later, he will die and his passion and influence will wane.  The only way to prevent the dilution of a population is for that population to have its own territory or, at least, its own community.  It must have its own schools, businesses, institutions and ideology*.  Jews and the Parsi (diaspora Persians in India) are good examples.  As it stands, governments prohibit whites from having their own schools; they are forced to allow their children to mix with other races (either explicitly or through financial pressure).  Businesses are not allowed to be strictly white and, as a practical matter, neither are most institutions.
It is not necessary for all whites to intermarry in one or two generations; under the above circumstances, all whites will eventually intermarry and the indigenous peoples of Europe will be no more.
It is not necessary to believe that whites are a pure race in order to recognize the validity of their existence.  Is there any proof that the Tasmanians were a “pure race”?  I doubt it – and yet many people grieve over their extinction.  I have already discussed the definition of “white” elsewhere.  Should Native American tribes allow anybody to join them, whether or not they have any Native American blood?  Many would say “no”.  If this were the case, those tribes would cease being tribes; instead, they would be religions, ideologies, social clubs or cults.
As for “voluntary intermarriage”.  One could argue that each individual case of miscegenation is “voluntary” but, taken as a whole, the vast conspiracy of propaganda and intense pressure (from birth to grave) for white girls and women to date blacks – and, to a lesser extent, for Asian girls and women to date whites – greatly reduces the “voluntary” element here.  “Grooming” would be a better word.  White girls are groomed to date blacks and this is no more voluntary than the grooming of girls to be prostitutes or house slaves.  The results of conditioning from a tender age are not “voluntary”.  The weak-minded of each generation will succumb.  The parents did not send their children to mixed schools voluntarily either.  Witness the opposition to desegregation in the South.  Their children were mixed at the point of a gun.
As for no one caring about it, on the face of it, this is clearly false.  Many people do care about it.  I care about it and so do most readers of this blog.  A recent survey revealed that nearly half of Mississippi Republicans would want miscegenation to be illegal.  One would assume that they care about it.  Armand Leroi cares about the survival of the negritos.  In any event, even if it were true that “no one” cared about it, this does not mean that we should not care about it.  Our priorities and opinions should not be subject to majority rule.  You, of all people Mr. Lindsay, should appreciate this.  After all, “no one” believes that Bigfoot exists – and yet you do.  And I would never try to debate your Bigfoot claims with such an argument.
You are right that races are not stable entities.  They ebb and flow and change all the time – but we ask that government allow nature to take its own course in this matter.  Species also come and go.  They become extinct all the time, even without the help of humans.  And yet we consider the eradication of a species (even subspecies such as the Spotted Owl) to be a great crime.  I have already contrasted the concern over a race of ducks with the lack of concern over races of men.
You claim that no one cares about efforts to swamp “pure” races in the past with immigrants in order to eradicate them “except that it had a racist ideology”.  I would say that current policies toward traditionally white nations are based upon “racist ideologies”.  We need not guess the intentions of those in power toward the white race; they have been quite vocal about their disdain toward it.  The MSM is vocal about it.  All Western institutions, that hold any measure of clout, are openly anti-white.  They make no secret about it.  What they want is a world either without whites at all, or one in which whites hold no power – even over their own destiny.  You read Amren so surely you are aware of this.
As the evil plans of those in power become ever more obvious, more and more people do care about it.
Respectfully yours,
Jewamongyou
*Though whites do not share a common ideology, they can incorporate a will to survive as a race within their various ideologies.

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What's in a name?

Half Sigma recently told us, concerning the name “Brooklyn” for a girl, that…

When I think of Brooklyn, I think of graffiti and traffic and guidos with low-class accents and neighborhoods of black people. This is not something I would want to name my daughter after.

Personally, I think “Brooklyn” sounds about as nice as any other name.  But I spent a few years in Israel and it was there that I got used to the idea that a name is supposed to mean something.  To this day, it seems odd to me that names can be “good” or “bad” or “normal” when they are divorced from any literal meaning.

My guess would be that, among the highly intelligent people who read this blog, most of y’all know the meaning of your names.  You’ve probably taken the time, at some point, to look it up in a dictionary.  But there are very few English names that mean anything at all in modern English.  In fact, I can think of none – unless we count homonyms like “Harry” and “hairy” or “Art(thur)” and “art”.  A visitor from outer space would probably find it odd that English speakers (and speakers of most Western languages) give names to their children that mean absolutely nothing in their native tongues.  Names that appear to be random collections of phonemes.  Indeed, some names really are random collections of phonemes.

It is possible that our perception of “good” names and “bad” names, or “appropriate” names and “inappropriate” names is influenced by associations with words that sound like the name in question.  For example, “Mary” sounds like “merry” but “Mildred” sounds like “mildew”.  More likely, we associate names with historic personalities who also had them or, as in Half Sigma’s example, with places that have them.  When an American hears “Thomas”, he probably thinks of “Thomas Jefferson” or “Thomas Paine” – or maybe his late Uncle Thomas.  In any case, “Thomas” probably draws most of its meaning from the fact that other people had that name in the past.  It is unlikely that many people, when introduced to a man named “Tom” or “Thomas”, wonder if he is a twin (the name “Thomas” is derived from the Aramaic word for “twin”).

In contrast, Semites (and many other language groups, I’m sure) have traditionally given names based on the literal meaning of the word.  We see this in the Bible and Arabs, to some extent, still do this.  Since a person’s nature is not evident until later in life, it was common for one’s name to be changed.  Two of the three Hebrew patriarchs had their names changed in mid-life: Abram (to Abraham) and Jacob (to Israel).  When each one of the tribal founders was born, an explanation is given as to why he was named as he was.  Because Semitic names were given, and often made up, based on words tied to actual events, there was a great wealth of potential names.  In ancient times, and until very recently among Oriental Jews, the name “Ishmael”, for example, was acceptable.  Now, due to its association with Arabs, very few young Jews sport that name.  The (later) Ashkenazi custom, of associating names only with personalities who had them earlier, had prevailed  Many perfectly good Hebrew names are now found only among Arabs while they are shunned by Jews.

When my own children were born, I wanted to give them colorful names, but my (then) wife would have none of that; she insisted on more conventional ones.  I yielded to her will.  After all, she had carried them for nine months.

As for the name choices of inner-city American blacks, my guess is that they are a collective attempt to create a new naming tradition.  They do not consider themselves part of American white culture, yet African culture is almost completely foreign to them, so they draw their names from the fringes of white culture and alter them.  I see nothing wrong with this – but I reserve the right to laugh at them as the need arises.  I wonder if SWPL’s are also trying to carve out their own cultural identity.  Haven’t elite whites, from the Patricians on down, always strove to set themselves apart from the unwashed masses? Be it as it may, let us laugh at them too.

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Odds and ends

None of the following merit their own post, so I’m throwing them together.
On miscegenation in Europe.  I noticed a few white male/ black female couples.  They were almost all older.  My impression is that many middle-aged white men in Europe can settle for a white woman who is a 2 or a 3 – or he can have a black woman who is a 5 or a 6.  The reason is the large number of black men who prefer white women over their own – just as in the United States.
On other race-realist blogs.  It appears that many of the race-realist blogs (including some that I link to) have fallen upon silent times.  Some of them have not seen a new post in many months.  While I understand the desire to limit one’s posting to high-quality material, there is nothing wrong with saying “hello” to your readers – so we’ll know you’re still alive.
The translation of “The Ashkenazi Revolution”.  I worked on it a bit on the airplane during my travels (I’m that dedicated) and, now that I’m home, I’ve resumed translating a little bit each day.  Currently, I’m tackling one of the most difficult (I hope) chapters; it contains a lot of poetry excerpts.  So, to those of you who look forward to reading it, do not worry.  It is not being neglected.
The weather in Portland is the usual for this time of year: sunny and beautiful during my work days but rainy and miserable on my weekends.  I suspect that the folks at HAARP have got it in for me!

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Rembrandt and Escher: Masters of transition

I was in Amsterdam for a while and, while there, I visited the rijksmuseum.  What I saw there left a powerful impression upon me.  In the Rijksmuseum one can see, in all their glory, some of the more famous works by Rembrandt and his disciples.  In a sense, it’s a pity that this was the first art I enjoyed during my tour of Europe.  It spoiled me and caused me to view the work of other Renaissance artists as inferior.  Indeed, even the work of Michael Angelo seemed cartoonish in comparison.  I feel privileged to have stood in front of such masterpieces as Nightwatch and The Staalmeesters.  Their immense size, coupled with their incredible quality, left me in awe and I felt as if I was actually there, in the same room as the subjects.
In my view there are two categories of painters: Rembrandt and everybody else – and yes, I realize this is a totally subjective statement.  Others will surely disagree.  The greatness of Rembrandt is widely held to be in his mastery of shadows and light.  For me, this means his mastery of transitions.  While other artists rendered their subjects as distinct from their backgrounds, Rembrandt incorporated them into a smooth transition from the background.  His use of shadows had the effect of attenuating the borders and bringing his work closer to the three dimensions we perceive as reality.
Another artist who specialized in transitions was M.C. Escher.  But his was a different approach.  His transitions take the form of creatures morphing into each other.  Where does the fish end and the bird begin?  The boundary between night and day?  It is hard to tell.  Even up and down lose their meaning.  He had mastered the art of depicting separate realms of reality on the same canvass.    But even as he confounded the borders of up and down and muddled the distinctions between various creatures, his work also emphasizes their contrast.  I have been an admirer of Escher since I was a little boy and my parents had a book of his work on the living room table.
Both Rembrandt and Escher were Dutch.  I am not so sure this is coincidence.  The Netherlands is a land of transition.  It is a land where the boundary between land and sea is always in flux.  Canals crisscross the country and much of the land is reclaimed from the sea.  Every so often, the sea claims it back.  Both Rembrandt and Escher were products of the land that spawned them.

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Some thoughts on Europe's graffiti

Travelling around Europe, I saw a lot of graffiti.  Other than what I’ve already written, that this is one sign of Europe’s decline, I wanted to share a few thoughts about this.
Firstly I wanted to give credit where credit is due and point out that much of Europe’s graffiti is skillfully done.  Though it is wrong to deface the property of others, there is no denying that some of those graffiti artists are talented.  In fact, at times it is difficult to distinguish publicly commissioned art from graffiti.
Secondly, I do not believe that most of the graffiti is done by immigrants or their children.  Due to the fact that it is found even in the most rural places, it seems likely that most of it is the work of indigenous Europeans.  But here I will adopt the position of Richard London and Richard Smith in “Religion of Macho” and say that those young whites were inspired mainly by Africans.  The mere presence of Africans, and the familiarity of black ghetto culture served as the impetus for graffiti.  Here are a couple of examples that provide some support to this theory – but there are also isolated signs that some graffiti artists are for the preservation of Europe::



Though I may be wrong about the example above, it looks like a swipe at Africans.
If I were in charge of Europe, I would suggest that graffiti-lovers gather their resources and set up large surfaces for the purpose of showcasing their art.  In the meantime, citizens would have the option of using their own surveillance equipment to catch vandals red-handed.  When successful, and after shooting the vandal with a tranquilizer gun and bringing him in, the citizen would be eligible for a cash reward.  The vandals would be subject to corporal punishment and public shaming.  After the first offense, penalties would become more severe.  There would be financial incentives for towns and cities to keep their areas clean of graffiti.

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