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So, JJR has provoked another “lively” debate about the JQ.  The unedifying spectacle of extreme judeophilia phobia

philia threatens.  Antagonism stalks the thread.  Questions are raised, as ever, about the purpose and utility of the blog ...

Situation normal, you might say.  This is MR, after all.  It has never been Amen Corner.

But I think it would do no harm to set out in a formal post why the blog functions in this manner, and why I will not willingly change it.

When one starts a political blog it is usually for the purpose of inflicting upon the world one’s own half-baked opinions, bad jokes and other illiteracies.  It is not wholly beyond the realm of possibility, however, that one may be motivated by something a bit bigger than self.  Apart, I guess, from the survival of the planet absolutely nothing in and beyond politics is bigger than the survival of European Man.  And it is that - the shattering significance of where he stands today and why, and where he is heading tomorrow - combined with the fact that this cannot even be discussed in the political and journalistic mainstream, which   caused me to set-up this decidedly free speech blog.

Now, at the time there was no template to copy.  There were fine websites addressing the issue from various sides, it is true.  But by definition a blog is an open resource.  Uniquely, the time and opportunity exist to interact, to persuade ... to try to answer and, thereby, awaken as many people as possible who are not currently in possession of all the facts and arguments they need to awake.  That, surely, is the first duty of anyone damned fortunate enough to escape the deadly embrace of conventional thinking.

Now, the place to do it is not, in my opinion, among the demonised and ghetto-ised nationalists.  It is out on the edge of the sleeping world where every illusion about us obtains, and only dreams of freedom drift across eyes wide shut.  I once read that it takes five years to change a man’s mind.  I don’t accept that in our case, because we have Nature, tradition and truth on our side.  There are a lot more light sleepers out there, too, as events drag them unceremoniously towards the morning light.

But there was another, more personal reason why I wanted to position MR as close to the mainstream as our interests and material would allow.  Like John, Phil, Martin and Mark, I am a Conservative by instinct.  I did not come to The Great Issue through nationalist politics.  I am comfortable talking to Conservatives about the dichotomies scarring their worldview.  I believe that if Conservatives can gain, or regain, their normal, healthy group-awareness from contact with nationalists, so nationalists can gain realism and respectablity from Conservatives.  The relationship should be mutually beneficial.

That, at least, is the theory.  In practice it has, let us say, been occasionally frustrating.  MR is very like a great pre-war airship.  When the storm-winds blow she is a might susceptible to being driven off-course - quite a bit off-course, actually.  Usually somewhere around Jerusalem.  We have lost bloggers from both wings - temporarily in most cases, I hope - because of the JQ as well as because their tastes and interests naturally diverge.  In the order of things, individual tastes and interests are of little importance and should, ideally, be subservient to a shared notion of the common good.  The JQ, however, is a challenging subject, and it doesn’t help for nationalists who are very familiar with (and completely unphased by) it to discount the difficulties it poses for others.  I have said elsewhere that I think we spend too much time on it.

Still, for all that the blog is what it is, which is something pretty unique and, I hope, valued by some.  I won’t change it.  I want, instead, to push the experiment forward and invite all who read this and who believe, from whatever political standpoint, that the Crisis of European Man is politically paramount to join in that effort.

E-mail to this blog received today from Matt Heaton of our hosting company.

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Today we experienced several MAJOR distributed denial of service attacks against our network. We regret that you experienced some downtime today. We have worked diligently today to further protect our network from these types of attacks. The attack today came from MANY different computers at the same time. This makes it difficult to block and resolve the issue.

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Godless Capitalist recently banned me from the porn site “Gene Expression” (warning: if you click on that link, software written by south Asian programmer claiming to be “cognitive elitist” has been detecting that you came from Majority Rights and directs you to pornography of black men and white women and it may do so at any time).  He did so because he claims I am a white nationalist—a vague class of people banned from the site.  But he also—perhaps arguing the alternative—claimed that I am an ignoramus when it counts and not capable of critical thought when it counts—hence not suitable company for cognitive elitists such as those supposedly running and contributing to Gene Expression.

Ironically, the justification he gives for claiming this is, itself, a failure of critical thought and/or ignorance when it counts.  Moreover, this exhibition was apparently brought on by my claim that recent immigrants from India’s lower caste may be bringing intestinal flora with them that are causing the autism epidemic among Westerners.

Now, we are led by Godless Capitalist to believe his ancestry is from India, but could his ancestry be lower caste?  Taking personal offense to such an hypothesis and then abusing one’s position of privilege to suppress rational dialogue—providing logically fallacious and/or ignorant justification for these actions—is certainly something more consistent with the hypothesis that he is of lower caste ancestry than brahmin, benefiting from affirmative action and posing as a cognitive elitist, than it is that he is a genuine member of a cognitive elite.  It is tragic for all concerned when such characters succeed.

Read on for his “egregious” logical fallacy and/or ignorance.

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We will be closed for business for up to four hours today so our hosting company can switch servers and effect a substantial upgrade to capacity.  I hope that will resolve the occasional problems we have had with CPU starvation over the past few months.

Thanks for your patience and for your support, as always.

… to be honest, ‘blood and soil’ is such a dismal, choking thing when taken in too strong a dose compared to the attractions of globalised cosmopolitanism.  The wonderful thing about modern ‘identity’ is that you can make it for yourself and rather than having it forced upon you by the people around you.  No, be[ing] a cosmopolitan is not to be less than whole, it is to be British (or American or French or Chinese) .... but not just British (or American or French or Chinese) if that is what you want.  It allows you to be you and to wrap yourself up in the bits of ‘your’ culture which work for you and to say ‘screw it’ to the rest. That is irresistible.

Freedom is not belonging… you can get that at a football match. Freedom is ... well, freedom.

These auto-intoxicating words of Samizdata illuminati and liberty-tripper, Perry de Havilland, were passed down to me from on “high” during a debate on what is now an ancient and very much pre-MR thread at his blog.  For anyone who still doesn’t know, Samizdata is a famously critical-rationalist (ie, Popperian) blog, and is right-wing Britain’s most-hit (by us!).

As was my practise at the time of that quote, I always acted with caution, giving Poppergun Perry no excuse to ban me.  Later it transpired that no excuse was necessary.  But that’s another story.

Now, following our disgracefully enjoyable examination of all these critical-rationalists’ emotional lives, organised so ably for us by Alex, I want to take a moment to reflect on the strange hatreds and glaring weaknesses of these desperately bitchy, cosmopolitan housewives.

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Can’t have JJR out on his lonesome.  Here are a couple of blog offerings from the capital city of love, the first a fine display of principle and true courage from the bloggers of “no-passaran” who protested a Muslim protest march last weekend against Western free speech.

Voices start to ring out. “It’s provocation!” “You tread on 1.5 million Muslims!” “Connards!” “Rat faces!”

“Ignore them, they are idiots!” reply others as a crowd starts to press around. A rhetorical question rings out: “Would they be carrying out the same provocations in other types of demonstrations?!” (Actually, Monsieur, yes we would and yes we have.)

The Danish American feels like replying that they have done the same to Chirac, to Mitterrand, to the civil servant salons, and to union demonstrations, but suddenly he and the French American start moving away. What has happened is that a short blonde Frenchwoman has tugged on their sleeves and gently but firmly started pulling them away.

“I will show you my ID 10 meters from here” says the plainclothes cop. “They are going to lynch you!” she adds, as she leads us into another street (in the movie taken by our valiant camera team, you can briefly see her wearing a brown coat, right after a bearded guy in white cap and tan jacket says “They are provoking us” and the camera turns).

“Sons of adultery!” “Hey, you two sons of the whore!” Uniformed policemen join us and start rushing us, more and more quickly down the street (I don’t want to run, I tell them), with a growing crowd quickening their steps. A police van’s door opens. “Go! Go!” shouts a policeman to the driver, “Foncez!” as sirens wail and the van rushes ahead.

“Are you out of your minds?!” ask the two officers. “Do you know how many of them there were?!” “Somebody’s got to stand up for free speech”, replies the French protestor. After staying with us for 20-something minutes, they let us out. (As a departing farewell, I say, “You know, right before you came, we almost had them surrounded.”)

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JR has received some welcome plaudits for the new page design, based on EE’s latest update.  He is entirely responsible, so don’t blame - or praise - me.  I’d like to add my congratulations and thanks.  I am well aware that he has put a lot of thought and a lot of time into it and the result, at least as far as I am concerned, is very satisfying.  It isn’t quite the final article.  We’ve still got to work out the MR Forum details and there are a couple of plug-ins to come on stream, plus whatever creative tweaks are still lurking at the back of JR’s mind.

I’m giving some consideration now to what we want forum-wise.  What we clearly don’t want is anything that might lead to this sad situation.  The main page will always be open-house.  But access to the MR Forum will require members’ log-in.  Either I or JR will post here on access when the facility is up and running.

Content-wise, the areas of off-blog debate which are most profitable for us are political, scientific and daily news, and we will probably start operating the forum accordingly.  Main page content will adjust to the presence of the forum, probably by losing some of the pure link-based content to it and, therefore, concentrating more on originated pieces.

However, this is not set in stone.  I am open to constructive suggestions, and you are welcome to pitch in with your ideas.

So that’s it.  Thanks to all for your continued patronage.  Let’s hope, after all JR’s work, the guys at EE don’t rush out a new and irresistible, improved version tomorrow morning.

Probably over this weekend MR will be upgraded to the latest ExpressionEngine package.  This will include an Open Forum and a number of other useful tweaks to the system.  So if you find we are off-line for a while that will be why.

Then over the ensuing days we will be making some general design changes, including garnering our science material into a single resource available at the click of a button on the side-bar.  Again, some unavoidable but brief service interruptions will be occasioned.  Our apologies for that.  But we expect the end-result to be worth it.

Thanks, as ever, for your interest and your fantastic commenting support, and please stay with us to help develop the blog and all the arguments for majority rights.

UPDATE - November 14th

The EE guys performed their mysterious deeds today, in fact.  We will now set about making the required design changes.

The Forum carries a risk, I agree.  But it also gives the blog an extra, somewhat democratic dimension.  I think it’s worth a try.  If the tone descends into personal abuse we’ll IP-ban the offenders, naturally.  But actually, the experience civility-wise has been remarkably good thusfar, and I’m hopeful that won’t change.