The Uniqueness of Western Law

by Richard Storey

  Whilst this subject is currently taboo in the West, as it may upset the feelings of some, the data suggest that this general personality type has its basis in our genes and would likely have been preserved or selected for by our ancient cultures. Elsewhere, I have written of the origins of this Faustian spirit in the moderate average levels of Factor 1 psychopathic traits in European peoples, inherited from our Indo-European ancestors.82 In short, ancient Europeans welcomed competition in everything, even if, or especially if, it presented a risk of death and, thus, the possibility of achieving immortal fame for one’s bravery.

  This attitude was transferred to the field of philosophy, favouring minds which could conceptualise well and which were bold enough to speak out against the status quo. These socio-biological factors may in part explain the restless creativity with which the Europeans have rationally systematised all human endeavours. N.B. Prof. Keirsey’s Rationals ‘ignoring arbitrary rules and conventions if need be.’ So, what is the significance of this? What do we do with this understanding of our general personality type as ‘white people’?

  We Europeans have historically and restlessly sought out solutions to the great mysteries, lasting and eternal achievements of the rational mind, even attainment of immortal glory in these discoveries. The ancient Greeks, likewise, outwitted and tangled with gods; during the Renaissance, typically European minds looked back to those ancestors, but having met their match in Christ, they also looked forward, envisioning the physically and spiritually perfect man and creating brilliant statues of this untainted archetype — something to be pursued in one’s self. Their timeless gaze both looks deep into our soul and invites us to do the same, that we might know ourselves, according to the Delphic maxim. So — who are we?

  After centuries of plunging those depths of the soul through poetry and philosophy, and conquering the universe around us through science and economics, we find that we are the quest itself — always pursuing the archetype, and never perfect. We are both children of a creative God and stewards of all — the mechanism through which habitable order is constantly being established in the midst of chaos, a process whose microcosm is seen in the rational self-mastery of the archetypal European personality. In this pursuit, there certainly is an eternal weight of glory.

  Conclusion

  Yet, we find ourselves overwhelmed by those who resent us, even our fellow-Europeans, and who would have us believe lies about our history and destiny, i.e. that the best way we can transcend ourselves, as we are wont to do, is to deliberately see ourselves sacrificed out of existence. But this destructive ethno-masochism is no victory for our people — surrender is not typical for us. If we would transcend our individual selves, we must recognise that we are a distinct group with unique cultures, upholding unique ideals; looking back, we understand where we came from and learn from our mistakes, and looking forward, we eternally pursue our ideals. And the European personality type is by no means the least of these.

  Chapter 6

  Why Do Whites Choose White Guilt?

  (Faustian Spirit is a double-edged sword)

  You’ve surely encountered it: white people virtue-signalling how ‘not racist’ they are. Their displays of piety even go so far as copying black humorists’ jokes about whites. It doesn’t matter where in the West they come from; gender isn’t a major factor, nor is one’s positioning on the left/right paradigm of the modern, liberal political spectrum. But, this is not simply a passing, ingratiating fad of the puritans of progressivism; it is more serious than that.

  Here is a quote from Noel Ignatiev of Harvard University: ‘The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.’83 Do you expect this man has lost his job or been punished in some way? He is celebrated in fact. Of course, he claims that he simply wishes to eradicate the notion of whiteness, since he chooses to believe there is no such thing as race. Apparently, he does not want to eradicate fair-skinned people.

  Yet, imagine if the word ‘white’ had been replaced with Ignatiev’s own ethnic group — ‘Jewish’. Would he be so celebrated, for instance, had he claimed he wanted to aggressively ‘abolish’ all notions of the Jews as a particular, chosen people of God? Why then is the eradication of European identity acceptable? And how readily would such a Marxist change his mind about eradicating fair-skinned people if he were given political power, and if said whites refused to relinquish said identity? I daresay the 20th century has taught us that lesson.

  It should go without saying that the agendas of the political classes, across the West, have been complicit where the abandonment of the character of Western nations is concerned. The mainstream media too has played no small part in maintaining the volume of the message, damning and ostracising any voices discordant to it. But how could this have happened? It seems unthinkable that it could have happened so easily to any other people of the world, who would typically be far too proud to tolerate such a destructive cultural trend. What’s so unique about white psychology that such a thing could occur?

  My question was loaded, yes. It seems to me that the root cause is a psychological one. There is something peculiar to white folks which has resulted in too many of us kowtowing to the negative self-image in vogue; this something also results in us being so apologetic for our existence that we don’t want to make a fuss about declining birth-rates and encroaching minority status in a few decades or less. Despite census data showing that whites are, by far, least likely to marry outside of their race, British adverts portray an excessive number of multiracial couples to show the world how ‘down with diversity’ we are.

  What is going on in the mind of whitey?

  Prof. Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene is an astoundingly intuitive book, displaying the gene-centred view of all life, which seems to put all social interactions into sound perspective. He identifies humans as ‘survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.’ Of course, Prof. Dawkins couldn’t forgo atheistic overtones in his definition. But, what is the moral of his philosophy?

  Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.84

  To the white man, who possesses the hopelessly repetitive habit of universalising every principle he encounters, this is kryptonite! The trouble isn’t that white people are not altruistic — we have the safest countries in the world (thanks in no small part to Christianity); the problem is that we believe we are so altruistic that we must save the world, whether it wants saving or not. White men have famously burdened themselves with ending slavery and promoting liberal values across the world, even at the cost of their own nations or empires. No, it wasn’t all evil colonialism; whites wanted to teach the globe to read, and even had dreams of saving the eternal souls of the whole world.

  How is being too nice a problem?

  The problem is two-fold:

  1. On average, whites possess a more psychopathic psychology which longs for recognition; and

  2. The predominant personality type among whites produces a tendency to transcend social norms.

  The result is: whites tend to presuppose that every single culture does or could or should exhibit the same levels of brilliance they perceive in themselves; and they have frequently coerced others to do so. For example, modern liberals, especially the neocons, act in the same way as past colonials by forcibly ‘making the world safe for democracy.’ But it isn’t just abroad. At home, we increasingly surround ourselves with foreigners — the more alien the culture, the better — as an audience to bear witness to how piously far above the selfishness of our genes we have risen (as though other peoples actually care).

  Basically, I propose that whites wan
t to have their cake and eat it too. True, they predominantly marry those of their own racial grouping, i.e. those with whom they feel more comfortable and akin. But they are also fully aware that, by not having children, they can hypocritically claim they aren’t at all interested in passing on their genes — they are far too pious to possess any natural, racial motivations. Really, they want kudos from their peers, and they want to return home to as comfortable and responsibility-free a domestic lifestyle possible.

  Disagree? The Chinese aren’t fooled. They know exactly the egoism afoot amongst liberal whites; thus the immense online popularity of the derogatory term, ‘baizuo’, for white liberals. This Chinese term means a ‘naive western educated person who advocates for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment; while being obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they import backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism… The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours.’85 These intuitive young Chinese have really identified this emperor’s lack of clothes.

  But, how did this moral consensus that whites must feel especially guilty for the past arise?

  To answer that question, we need to understand the rise of cultural Marxism in the West. After the nihilism of the 1960s, this movement took off when it became apparent to leftist thinkers that earlier Marxists, such as Gramsci and Lukács, were correct — the socialist experiments of the 20th century were failures, and if leftist ideology was to survive, Western culture would have to be subverted.86 Much ink has been spent on the Frankfurt school etc. and just how the left came to dominate the media, academia and the political institutions in the West, but suffice it to say that the doctrine of dividing the haves from the have-nots didn’t take hold. The real divisive factor which has caused massive rupture between every conceivable group in the West has been the doctrine of the oppressed and the oppressor.

  Whites created modern capitalism, developed successful natural and hierarchical orders, and have come to dominate the world, culturally and otherwise. By completely subverting everything, and I mean everything, about European civilisation worldwide, a leftist social order could then rise from the ashes. But where to find an overwhelming group of ‘the oppressed’, if policies and the social dynamic are geared to improving every man from every walk of life? Naturally, the obstacle to the end goal is majority groups of white people and the kinds of cultures and civilisations they have historically produced, which are inhospitable to the weed of communism, even in its softer form of liberal democracy, since they do not appeal to the lowest common dominator.

  Therefore, the long game has been the deconstruction and now the apparent abolition of the very identity of white people, nationally or otherwise. No pride in one’s heritage, strengthening of one’s people for the future or any other such heresy is permissible. Only absolute and hyper-individualism is permitted for the white man. Until he is an absolute minority, he can identify as an economic unit, and no more.

  Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe summarises the phenomenon well:

  [Every] ‘victim’ group has thus been pitted against every other, and all of them have been pitted against white, heterosexual, Christian males and in particular those married and with children as the only remaining, legally un-protected group of alleged ‘victimizers’… The institution of a family household with father, mother and their children that has formed the basis of Western civilization, as the freest, most industrious, ingenious and all-around accomplished civilization known to mankind, i.e., the very institution and people that has done most good in human history, has been officially stigmatized and vilified as the source of all social ills and made the most heavily disadvantaged, even persecuted group by the enemy elites’ relentless policy of divide et impera.87

  How can so many whites be so stupid?

  Prof. Ricardo Duchesne, myself and others have written of the Faustian spirit of the European psychology — how something has evolved which has caused white people to attempt deeds which seem bizarre and pointless to most others. Just as the white man has sought to be the first to reach the poles, mountaintops and even the moon, so too I believe that the white man is endeavouring to be the first to show he has no care at all for his own genes.

  The white man would show the world that he is so unconcerned with the will of his genetic programming that he can flout it altogether and be so transcendentally altruistic that he will put the well-being of all others before his own people until, perhaps, they have gone extinct. Sadly, this fearless quest for glory, inherited from our psychopathic Indo-European ancestors, isn’t accompanied with intelligence or any long-term thinking. Our ancestors disregarded their lives and performed great deeds so as to be remembered and to win immortal fame — but they did so to be remembered by their people!

  If we are the first to neglect our genetic predispositions towards our own, we will become a proverb of stupidity to the rest of the world, who will not remember us with fondness. Other peoples wish to recall the great deeds of their ancestors and heroes, not those of another. Once again, we whites universalise to our great undoing. But this time we will have no children to mourn our mistakes.

  Part Three

  Politics

  Chapter 1

  Liberal Supremacism:Today’s White Man’s Burden

  For all their railing against the dynamically dominant civilisations of Europe, especially against imperialism, modern liberals unwittingly behave in precisely the same manner as the totalitarian villains of history they claim to oppose. The only difference is that they wish to impose a globalist, rather than a nationalist version of liberalism. In practice, this is very hyper-individualistic; they reject all traditional forms of identity by promoting a sense of white guilt among the native Europeans (for colonialism’s sake) and, for immigrants, they peddle a replacement identity — consumerism with a veneer of some unappealing form of constitution or proposition-based civic nationalism. You know, ‘Please adhere to “British values”, if you find the time and if it’s not too much bother’ — that sort of thing.

  Make no mistake, liberals are no less guilty of universalising their ideas and forcing them on the world.

  Prof. Ricardo Duchesne pointed out as much in his underappreciated book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization. He identifies the behaviour of the left, especially in their desire to see everyone converted to their ideology, as driven by the same spirit which has historically caused Europeans to dominate others, for the sake of imposing their principles on them; principles, of course, which they perceive to be universally important. This is the liberal white man’s burden — it has been shaping the world for decades and with tremendous urgency.

  Today, our political spectrum is no more than two sides of the same coin — both left and right today are modern liberal democrats, whether socialist or neocon, and both wish to see the breakdown of all humanity into mere economic units. Fascism and Communism were defeated and now they are set to dominate the world stage. Their shared violent goal was recently evidenced by the near-unanimous celebrations of Donald Trump’s 2017 Shayrat missile strike in Syria, despite the fact that this strike conflicted with the wishes of those who had elected Trump precisely for his anti-war campaign promises.

  For all their rhetoric regarding decolonisation, the liberals have themselves attempted to colonise and proselytise the world. As most countries ‘Westernise’, they are really transforming into soulless wastelands of consumerism in the place of identity. Those who admire the colonialism of the Enlightenment era boast of improvements in healthcare, education and industry for the third world; today, the liberals boast of improved ‘human rights’ and technology to justify their endeavours. They sugar-coat their hypocrisy with euphemisms such as ‘soft power’, but this is no less the replacement of native, national, cultural, religious or
, indeed, any collective identity than that of burdened white men past.

  The similarities don’t stop there. As foreign lands (with no real connection to the West) are ravaged by war, Merkel et al. call for third-world refugees to travel across the seas, heartlessly indifferent to how many will perish in the voyage. Those who survive will be forced to integrate into the same system that is gradually being imposed back in their countries of origin. It all sounds like the very international slavery which is bemoaned by the liberals (the same liberals who denigrate the only civilisation to put an end to the practice). All this serves to assimilate foreigners into the multicultural global community as a mere economic unit, one which knows no racial, ethnic, religious or cultural ties.

  Looting too!

  How could we forget about the looting? It has even become the mainstream academic opinion that the West was able to advance so far beyond even China, since the late medieval period, because of material as well as cultural looting from colonial territories. Of course, the fact that the GDP of colonial European countries was minute or that those countries which didn’t engage in such activities were also successful, goes unmentioned. The liberals remain just as silent while far greater lootings occur every day, across the world, as international elites steal even from future generations through purposely installed central banks.