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The only real glimmer of light for us that I can see is that the dominance of the West is very clearly coming to a close. It might take some time... then again, empires can fall quite rapidly. Think how quickly the British Empire fell. Just a short hundred years ago, the British Empire was still quite an impressive thing. A hundred years goes by, and "all our pomp of yesterday" really does seem as remote as the empires of Nineveh and Tyre. But I don't think we should worry too much about the future. We should live in the present. The future can take care of itself, and I'm afraid that if things ever do improve we will long have been pushing up the daisies. What we need is acceptance of reality, stoicism and the will to make the best of what we have (which is actually not at all bad - most of us can actually live very good lives indeed, even in these dark times). What we don't need is pining for the future and endless regrets. Let me put forward my alternative to BAP. The one grain of truth hidden beneath all his crypto-fascist nonsense is that young males are crying out for affirmation of their masculinity. And what could provide this? I think the answer is really absurdly, painfully simple. In the 1988 biopic of Don Bosco, the protagonist, a priest, falls in love with the pretty boys of Turin, and decides "They must be loved; and they must know that there's somebody who loves them." Exactly. Boys must be loved and they must be loved for being boys. Only a pederast can do this, because only a pederast loves them for their very boyishness, their haecceity. No other figure can do this. Parents love their kids, but that rather goes with being a parent. A parent doesn't choose to love this particular boy out from so many others. A boy might have an affair with an adult woman, but a boy doesn't look up to a woman. A boy can only look up to an adult man. And when that man loves the boy, and shows that he loves him, then this is the greatest affirmation of the boy's masculine selfhood that he can experience. The pederast loves the whole person, body as well as soul. And the two cannot be separated. For a boy to have pride in being a boy he must also have pride in his boyish body. So erotic desire on the part of the man is absolutely essential. (And of course the boy's body must be something worthy of pride - lean, graceful, not flabby, etc - like a Joubert drawing - but this is something boys can do something about.) So this whole issue cannot be addressed in a roundabout way. The affirmation of boys' masculinity can only be addressed though boylove. Boys certainly do not need to be taught martial virtues in order to be proud of their masculinity. This is what the HJ did - and look where it led them. At the end of the war boys were uselessly sacrificed by Hitler in the defence of Berlin simply because he couldn't care less about them. No one loved boys less than Hitler. It is because BAP glorifies war that I think he's a bit shallow. Furthermore, I think BAP would probably send us all to the gas chambers in a heartbeat and never suffer a twinge of conscience over it for his entire life. After all, he's in favour of the demogogic leader who sacrifices everything and everyone for the sake of transitory power. (How absurd and useless a mode of life!) So why would he care about a bunch of 'pedo-perverts'? I can't help feeling that we need to choose our friends very carefully. |