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In his video today, Alexander Mercouris said:
This is a huge event and it is an event which Russians and others within the territory of the former Soviet Union take great pride in, and which by the way we in the West should be grateful to them for, though in truth and in fact we never are.
Mercouris is an idiot. Virtually all westerners are. Here’s a quote from another source:
Confirmation bias is not a quirk. It is not a bad habit you can fix with a motivational quote. It is a deeply embedded cognitive architecture that runs under every thought you believe is rational, every conclusion you believe is objective, and every opinion you believe you arrived at through careful consideration. The mechanism is simple and devastating: the brain actively seeks information that confirms what it already believes, and actively discounts, ignores, or attacks information that challenges it. Not occasionally. Constantly.
When a person holds a belief about their own competence—when they have decided, consciously or not, that they are smart, capable, and correct, the confirmation bias engine turns fully toward protecting that identity. Every piece of evidence that supports their self-image gets amplified. Every compliment lands with weight. Every small success becomes proof of their larger narrative. And every challenge, every contradiction, every piece of evidence that might suggest they are wrong gets filtered, reframed, or rejected entirely. Not through deliberate dishonesty, through an automatic process they never even see it happening.
This is how intelligent-sounding people hold profoundly wrong beliefs for decades without ever feeling the friction of being wrong. They are not stupid. They are not lying. They are running a program that the human brain runs in every single person—but they have never been handed the tools to interrupt it. And so the program runs unchecked. The beliefs compound. The blind spots deepen, and the confidence grows—not because the evidence supports it, but because the brain has been quietly curating a reality that does. Now layer on top of this the modern echo chamber, and you have one of the most powerful reinforcement systems ever constructed.
Content that confirms your existing beliefs triggers dopamine. Content that challenges your beliefs triggers cortisol… The social dimension of this goes even deeper. Human beings are tribal by design.
Challenging the beliefs of your group meant rejection—and rejection once meant death. That threat is no longer physical, but the brain hasn’t received the update.
When someone challenges a belief that is tied to your group identity—your political tribe, your professional community, your cultural circle—the brain processes it as a threat to survival. The rational mind goes offline. The defensive mind takes over. And suddenly a conversation about facts becomes a battle about identity, about loyalty, about who you are and which side you’re on.
This is why expertise doesn’t automatically win arguments. This is why data doesn’t automatically change minds. This is why you can show someone evidence that directly contradicts their position, and watch them walk away more convinced than before—a phenomenon researchers call the backfire effect.
I really hate normies…
Viele Menschen werden dich fragen, was du wirklich mit deinem Leben machst, doch diese Menschen haben eine so schwache Seele, dass sie einen Kampf, der größer ist als sie selbst, nicht begreifen könnten.
Many people will ask you what you are really doing with your life, but these people have such weak souls that they could not comprehend a struggle greater than themselves.
I’d like to add an anecdote to my comment today on the previous post, “Bogus Science.”
My finances took a hit, as I mentioned the month before last, due to the scam involving my sister, who owed me money and was paying me back monthly: something she can no longer do after her account was emptied by the scammer. I’ve just come from my bank to clarify something. Since I had to wait in line to speak with an executive, I brought one of my journals to keep me entertained while I waited my turn.
So I happened to see that on January 18, 2018, I had written something about Tyrone Pattern-Walsh, who used to sign his emails “Ty”: a commenter I visited in London who was imprisoned by the government last year for what he said on his friend Chris Gibbons’ podcast, whom I also met in London. (The poor Englishmen lack a First Amendment, and any truly incisive comment against the System can have very serious legal consequences!)
As I also recently mentioned in another of our recent discussion threads, I was struck by the fact that when I recommended to Ty in his London flat that he watch one of Robert Whitaker’s videos (I embedded a Whitaker video in my previous post yesterday) to help him stop taking the drug that was causing him akathisia, he basically ignored me.
Well, although my intention in queuing at the bank had nothing to do with Ty—I opened my 2018 diary simply to pass the time entertained while waiting—, I stumbled upon a passage that illustrates why it’s really foolish not to be interested in the topic:
By the way, Ty admires Charles Manson but not the critics of psychiatry I quote [in The West’s Darkest Hour]—even though he’s a victim of psychiatry! [my Spanish-English translation]
I wasn’t just referring to the akathisia from the drug he was taking when I noticed those symptoms in his apartment (always moving nervously, almost reflexively), but also because in the previous decade, his parents had committed him to a psychiatric hospital where he suffered terribly.
Would Ty be in jail if, instead of admiring the madman Manson, he had admired Whitaker?
I don’t think so: without akathisia and with his cathartic testimony of what his parents had done to him in auto-biographical books, as Benjamin and I did, he wouldn’t have been so reckless in his revolutionary pronouncements on Black Wolf Radio, run by Chris. (You simply cannot talk about racial revolution, even in a purely academic way, on that Orwellian island!)
In the fourth question of his survey, Benjamin asked:
Is psychiatry really a pseudoscience? Is the etiology of schizophrenics/psychotics truly that of parental trauma victims? Are neuroleptics/psychiatric drugs detrimental to health? Do parents cause the vast majority of the DSM-5/ICD behavioural patterns labelled as distinct disorders? Is mental illness environmental in origin? Is the psychiatric genetics position scientifically bankrupt?
Ben and I exchanged a few words in the discussion thread, but he recently added via email:
By the way, on the final (closing) comment by you on ‘Survey’, on Greg Johnson’s inability—even as he proofread it—to take in the information… that’s something I’ve never in my life understood about people. I can see it would really bother you!
They read the extensive full-proof document and they still don’t agree. I can only assume it’s an intelligence lack/dogma thing—some type of faulty methodology that arises from lower emotional intelligence. There’s some type of screen in the way, like a cognitive dissonance, and they just can’t process the evidence (the orthodox bias imposed by society is too great; that or the psychological implications in their own lives of taking it seriously, that private life ‘can of worms’ I mentioned before…).
I mean, of all points you’ve discussed with me (usually me, as not many others participate) that concern psychiatry on WDH—of pretty much all topics discussed there—psychiatry criticism is the most comprehensively debunked by now, with a superb level of detailed evidence, all bases covered, and you still get people somehow not grasping it (or not seeing why it’s important).
The reason racialists block topics we should be discussing, but which are a kind of taboo (for example Nordicism, which wasn’t taboo among Anglo-American eugenicists before WW2), is that the human mind is a restrictive container. There are notions, such as saying, “a fraudulent profession (psychiatry) has been taught in medical schools”, that show that the mind of the normie, or neo-normie racialist, is blocked by iron walls: ideas that simply cannot penetrate the membrane of our reason.
We human beings fortify ourselves in our certainties: for example, that what is taught as science in universities is always science. Often, the “insignificance” of reality doesn’t cause us cognitive dissonance (e.g., that psychiatry presents its central tenet, that mental disorder is a biomedical entity, as an irrefutable hypothesis according to Popper’s litmus test for distinguishing between real science and bogus science).
Sight and hearing can annihilate the believer! That’s why the normie closes his eyes and ears to the harrowing testimonies of the trauma suffered by those who endured terrible abuse in their childhood, which led to their mental disorders as adults: a plain refutation of the psychiatric medical model of mental disorders that, lacking biomarkers (unlike neurology, which does study biomarkers), dogmatically blames the brains of those traumatised by their parents:
of Polyxena
In the sixth question of Benjamin’s survey published yesterday, he asks: “Are we required to reclaim our women by force in the manner of the Sabines?”
As I have already said, if the Aryan male so desired, he could destroy feminism overnight during the racial revolution.
Before feminism, our 19th-century ancestors had more contact with our pre-Christian past than today’s feminised racialists, who find the idea of abducting the contemporary Sabines to found a new Rome appalling: an empire that would resemble Hitler’s dream much more than ancient Rome. But since feminism has already taken over our post-Christian, neo-Christian culture, we will have no choice but brutal solutions:
In the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence stands this sculpture known as The Rape of Polyxena by the artist Pio Fedi, created between 1855 and 1865. Polyxena is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
As a commenter on Twitter recently said, “it is a breathtaking marble celebration of abduction, power, and zero consent!”
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Survey for WDH Regular Readers
by Benjamin
Please answer either “yes” to each question, or limit your “no” response to the best concise argument that you can make. These questions are not intended to be ambiguous.
“Enemies” = non-Aryan racial enemies/Aryan traitors. “I don’t know” is not an acceptable response to any question.
Regarding how I ended my essay about Marco, which I uploaded to this site on April 26, by saying that nutsy people like Marco only hurt themselves but that there are narcissists in the highest spheres of power, let’s listen to what Scott Ritter said in an interview uploaded to YouTube today:
We have to stop viewing this problem [Trump’s crazy policy in the war against Iran] from the standpoint of traditional geopolitics because you’ll never get it right. This is about a mentally ill president. When I say mentally ill, it is a mental illness. When we speak of narcissistic personality disorder, it is literally a mental illness. And this man has an extreme, malignant version of it [Marco’s condition!]. He is literally psychotic. You saw the tweets: eleven posts in a handful of hours, stuff that […] any military person would be relieved of command […]
We’re dealing with a literally insane person, who has surrounded himself with people whose job is to sustain the insanity […] They’re there to stroke their president’s ego which is the worst thing you can do for a narcissist but that’s what happened.
I hate Ritter’s opinions about Hitler, but I like what he says about Trump.
Regarding what the racial right is doing, among other things Benjamin observed yesterday:
…a kind of interesting academic matter to be debated, where people can have ‘opinions’.
One of the sites that shocks me most is Counter-Currents. Both the writers and commenters talk as if the whole thing were academic because the water hasn’t reached up to their necks.
It’s incredible the feeling I get reading that site (and the other white nationalist forums). It’s something like: “These guys aren’t doing anything and they think they’re doing something.”
I think they recently held a meeting in Rome, but it never occurs to them that what they’re doing only makes sense by forming a Nazi party that wants to seize power.
What can be done with these “men” who only complain about what the jews and the niggers and the spics do without lifting a finger in the real world?
If there’s anything that depresses me immensely, it’s the mere existence of these people. But the saddest thing is that the true Aryan man, symbolised by his sword, no longer exists.
You can’t find him anywhere! It is truly the darkest hour for the fair race, and were it not for what comes after the collapse of the dollar—and perhaps peak oil—I would say that this entire website, to quote David Lane, is an “open letter to a dead race”.
nationalists:
When will you stop sinning?
When will you renounce the Judeo-Christian ethics
that have been destroying the Aryan race
since Constantine seized power
—and return to our true Gods?
On Friday, 1 May 2026 in the morning, C.T. wrote:
Does nobody in the UK really think like the heroes of The Turner Diaries?
César
______ 卐 ______
Dear César,
To answer your question: Absolutely no one—not a person I have ever met; not a person I have encountered online; not a single dissident right online article I have ever read.
You’re right on Nick Griffin. He’s the epitome of Nietzsche’s ‘last man’ (and trying to impose it on others here as a ‘solution’).
There are three options, two of which are false:
• Berk’s dissident right re-migration.
• Nick’s Christian ‘community-building’/Aryan diaspora surrender.
• The West’s Darkest Hour perspective.
But this nation’s men are such filth. I think, more than America, if the UK’s Aryans are to survive, WDH content must reach them.
I think Nick’s rational analysis of politics failure in the article is sound; everything else he writes is rubbish. Also, he has not accounted for how violent, and how anti-white the racial enemies are.
Thomas 2
______ 卐 ______
My response for this blog:
“Absolutely no one”? Wow! We are truly living in the darkest hour for the white race. Perhaps it’s worth mentioning that I’ve been watching old Sherlock Holmes movies lately and felt a kind of nostalgia for a world where only beautiful whites inhabited that island.
The main culprit behind all this mess is the Aryan man—not the Jew: the latter merely takes advantage of Aryan stupidity—, who has accepted Christian ethics, as is clear in the quotes from Adam Green’s book that I recently posted.
But returning to the English, only Nietzsche portrayed them clearly, although nowadays the Germans themselves—in fact, all the Aryans of the world—have already allowed themselves to be infected by neochristianity. Nietzsche wrote:
In England one must rehabilitate oneself after every little emancipation from theology by showing in a veritably awe-inspiring manner what a moral fanatic one is. That is the penance they pay there. —We others hold otherwise. When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one’s feet.
As readers of this site know, Wokism is essentially atheistic hyper-Christianity from an axiological perspective. In other words, the morality of the New Testament is far more deeply ingrained in today’s atheists than in traditional Christians.
Therefore—
Fuck Xtians & atheists!
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