Alba Rosa
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— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The Biblical vision of the Great Whore is psychohistorically realized in the Matriarchy of the Modern West. This Matriarchy is not the literal exclusive exercise of power by hyper-emancipated women — although this fashionable aspect is increasingly visible — but rather the effective feminization of Western civilization. Who exactly exercises power is of secondary importance: ‘neutered’ males, preferably explicitly identifiable as gays, transgenders and docile affirmative action creatures, can direct a Matriarchy as effectively as ‘denatured’ women. The only thing that counts is the final destination of the journey towards total feminization: anti-identity.
Sunset dates the matriarchal Machtübernahme to the aftermath of the First World War: the male population of the West has been decimated by four years of trench warfare and the female population of the West is forced to take over male societal functions. The remaining males of the West are — mostly subconsciously — suffering from collectively humiliating survivor guilt and find themselves bereft of the Traditional structures that used to explicitly represent the male principle of auctoritas. The Monarchy, the Nobility and the Church have lost their remaining world power after the total victory of Modernity and the total defeat of Tradition, as illustrated by the fall of the supranational Imperia of the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs, the Ottomans and the Romanovs. Instead, the Western peoples are taking their final steps towards Matriarchy. The female electoral franchise combined with female economic emancipation results in totalitarian ‘social security’: the government takes on the function of abstract ‘super husband and father’ and forces the remaining concrete husbands and fathers into tributary payments in the form of ‘taxes’ and ‘alimonies’. Thus, the collectivist totalitarian super-state of 20th century Matriarchy is born. ‘Social security’ combined with ‘judicial equality’ inevitably results in the breakdown of the traditional family as a societal norm: once they are economically and judicially covered, ‘emancipated’ women can indulge in relationship and labour experiments with impunity. In the course of a few decennia all traditional values and rules are dissolved in the historical acid of the Realmatriarchat, characterized by totalitarian doctrines such as ‘emotional experience’ (sub-rational communication), ‘equal opportunities’ (potency reduction) and ‘self-development’ (narcissist role-playing): this is the start of The Century of the Self (Tony Curtis, 2002). It is important to note that, from a Traditionalist perspective, there can be no question of assigning ‘blame’: from a Traditionalist perspective, Matriarchy is simply the logical societal projection of a cosmic process of feminization that is characterized by the dislocation and hypertrophy of the archetypal feminine principle and that finally ends in anti-identity.
This process accelerates after the Second World War and reaches full speed in the baby boomer counterculture of the ’60s: it intensifies in a vicious cycle of mutually reinforcing social ‘deconstructions’: political hyper-democracy, social collectivism, hedonist materialism and culture relativism. From a meta-historical perspective, the semi-reactionary counter movements of the 20th century (Fascism, Corporatism, National Socialism) are nothing more than hopelessly doomed rearguard actions. The inevitable defeat of these movements merely served to strengthen and accelerate the historical development of the Modern Western Matriarchy. The end of the Second World War marks the final psychohistorical ‘castration’ of Western manhood: biological reproduction and cultural transmission soon start to falter. The ebbing of the last demographic boom — the baby boomers are the children of the last authentically ‘Western’ generation, the great generation — is followed by demographic sui-genocide. During the Postmodern Era (Sunset places its commencement in the year 1992) the Modern Western Matriarchy achieves a position of social-political and cultural-historical monopoly. But total Matriarchy is doomed to be short-lived: the imminent failure of biological reproduction and cultural transmission in the Western heartland are creating a fatal psychohistorical void: the stage of individual psychological implosion and collective malignant narcissism is at hand (Christopher Lasch, 1979). Inevitably, every Matriarchy eventually abolishes itself by the absence of (viable) offspring. To the extent that indigenous Western biological procreation continues — a few non-matriarchal sects such as the Mormons and Amish aside — the remaining offspring is collectively and fatally marked by the social and psychological havoc of ‘single parent families’ and ‘liberal educational practices’. Many of these schrecklichen Kinder der Neuzeit (Peter Sloterdijk, 2014) are illegitimate children, stepchildren, foster children, adopted children etc. In their case, matriarchal jurisprudence of the baby boomers always prevails: baby boomer ‘privacy’ prevails over the right to know who one’s parents are, baby boomer ‘self-determination’ prevails over the right not to be maltreated, abused and neglected and baby boomer ‘property rights’ prevail over the right to a just inheritance. Thus, the ‘impulsive’ wish of ‘liberated’ women to become pregnant, where necessary facilitated by anonymous ‘donors’, always prevails over the existential need of every child: to have a (biological, real) father. Thus, the ‘second youth’ of ‘speed divorcing’ baby boomers, where necessary facilitated by ‘mail order brides’, always prevails over the inheritance rights of the ‘stepchild’. Thus, the numerically inferior post-baby boomer generations are legally, economically and psychologically doomed to societal marginalization. This marginalization — a de facto state of enforced Verelendung and anomie — is continuously affirmed and reinforced by the aggressive Cultural Nihilist agenda of neo-liberalism (demolition of social security), globalism (demolition of economic opportunity) and Umvolkung (demolition of ethnic cohesion).
Matriarchy degrades Western civilization to the status of the Great Whore of the world: the matriarchal ‘open society’ is a calculated invitation of boundless exploitation by unscrupulous bankers, political mercenaries, opportunistic criminals, ruthless colonists and resentful barbarians. Matriarchy cannot and does not want to defend itself: it represents unconditional surrender and blind submission. From a psychohistorical perspective, Matriarchy is a sadomasochistic mechanism that condemns the Western peoples to a perverse sacrificial death. Matriarchy is more than a mere emotional incapacity for self-defence: it is the blind impulse to self-annihilation. The matriarchal ideology of Cultural Nihilism is nothing but a self-administered anaesthetic to allow this impulse to persist as long as possible. Meanwhile, the instruments of physical self-annihilation are put in place: the torture instruments of neo-liberal economic exploitation, globalist political repression and ethnic replacement are ready to grind the remnant post-baby boomer population of the West into the dust of history.
Undoubtedly, ethnic replacement is the most stereotypically cruel instrument within the matriarchal torture machinery: it explicitly expresses the new ‘disposable’ status of the Western peoples and it simultaneously represents the ultimate sadomasochistic ‘punishment’ of Matriarchy. The culturally most highly advanced, the intellectually most refined and the physically most vulnerable peoples of the world are confronted, in their own homelands, with an invasion of the culturally least receptive, mentally least responsible and physically most hardened peoples of the world. The innocent children of the West, the exquisitely sensitive and vulnerable heirs to the most refined civilization of human history, are forced to fight a perversely unequal social-Darwinist struggle for survival against ruthless barbarians from the darkest corners of the Third World. The hostile elite of the Western Matriarchy has opened the gates of the sheep-fold so that the sheep can engage in ‘dialogue’ with the wolves for the sake of ‘diversity’.
Matriarchy is symbolized by an unspoken perversion which is realized in ever increasing numbers of ‘broken families’: self-hating ‘single moms’ are indulging in a sick impulse to open the doors of their children’s room to her ‘guests’. The cult of Matriarchy always depends on child sacrifice — in the Bible the punishment for this c
ult of ultimate sin is nothing less than the eternal damnation of the People of the Covenant:
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
— Jeremiah 7:31–34
Ethnic replacement by means of mass immigration is a typical ‘feel good’ project of the matriarchal baby boomer Gutmensch: it reflects the typical matriarchal combination of run-away ‘maternal instinct’ (ruthless colonists as pitiful ‘refugees’) and sadomasochistic instinctual complexes (gynophobic polygamists as masculine heroes). It expresses the essentially oikophobic emotionality of Matriarchy: the essentially anti-identitarian orientation of Matriarchy finds its explicit expression in deliberate deterritorialization (‘open borders’) and xenophilia (‘multiculturalism’). But it will not be the baby boomers that have to empty the poisoned cup of ethnic replacement to its final bitter dregs: this fate is reserved for the post-baby boomers. It is the privilege of disinherited grandchildren of the baby boomers to be fully submerged in the poisoned pool of ‘cultural diversity’, including its intimate experiences of rapefugees, loverboys, grooming gangs, Sylvester-Übergriffe and tournantes. The terrifying combination of matriarchal social implosion and ethnic replacement, still largely hidden behind the (self-)censorship of the media cartel, are so unspeakably disgusting that they are effectively indescribable. At most, a few hallucinatory details occasionally emerge whenever social implosion claims some non-Western victims (Samira Bellil 2002, Ilan Halimi 2006, Mireille Knoll 2018). But the collective price paid by the Western post-baby boomers is becoming increasingly visible in official statistics and the public sphere. Their ‘White Death’ has many faces: disturbing suicide rates, epidemic drug addiction, escalating psychopathology, massive youth unemployment, collective impoverishment and permanent social degradation.
To prolong the pink intoxication of Matriarchy for as long as possible, the reality of matriarchal social implosion remains a public and political taboo. (Self-)censorship, partially subconscious, is an intricate part of the totalitarian ‘political correctness’ that must characterize every Matriarchy. The dogma of social-cultural ‘progress’ — and its derivate, feminisation — is the last public idol of Modernity. Institutional cognitive dissonance is an absolute psychohistorical precondition for a prosperous Matriarchy. In the same way that Matriarchy is privately characterized by sub-rational (perverse, sadomasochistic) sexuality and nihilistic (anti-intellectual, morally-deconstructive) education, so it is publicly characterized by political indifference and judicial inefficiency. During the ‘ethical holiday’ of Postmodern Matriarchy, the male principles of Nomos and Katechon are eliminated from the public sphere. The elimination of Traditional male values such as honesty, courage and fairness means that the gatekeepers of civilization are banished. Thus, the dangers of feminization remain taboo until they are realized in their last consequences. The taboo on Matriarchy will only end when the power of the Matriarchy ends. Until that time, Western civilization is doomed to a true ‘harrowing of hell’.
The Zombie Apocalypse
Surely we have perished sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?
— Wilfred Owen
The final scenes of Western civilization under the aegis of Matriarchy can be easily deducted from the eschatological visions of the world of Tradition. The ancient prophecy of Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld uses terminology that is enigmatically reminiscent of the ‘modern art’ theme of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. Even after it has lost its Transcendental experiential capacity, modern mankind is still haunted by strange nightmares and visions: presentiments and premonitions are plaguing modern artists and visionaries. The dark midnight of the modern world is occasionally lit up by lightning flashes of hierophany and cryptomnesia, showing the warning signs of the horrors that are awaiting mankind. Contemporary books, music, movies and games are increasingly occupied with enigmatic references to an impending catastrophe of ultimate horror: the take-over of the human world by the ‘living dead’. As the immense downward power of Matriarchy is pressing Western humanity ever farther into radical secular nihilism and extreme malignant narcissism, it is inevitable that it is falling back on an archetypal subhuman substrate. It is in this prehistoric ‘hell’ that it finds demonic archetypes to animate its new anti-identities. The alternative to authentic Traditional identity is not the hyper-democratic and hyper-individualist dolce far niente promised by the false prophets of Modernity, but rather a return to what lies hidden under authentic Traditional identity. There is the hell of subhuman anti-identity: the identity of the ‘hardened sinner’, the ‘lost soul’, the ‘erring spirit’, the ‘hungry ghost’ and the ‘undead vampire’.
The hedonist-materialist nirvana of Modernity, lived by the baby boomers, is a transient fever dream which will shortly end in a horrendous Postmodern nightmare. The baby boom motto of après nous le déluge does not take account of the force that truly directs the impending ‘hellstorm’. That force is the bodiless spirit of evil that is the counterpart of the Holy Spirit, Biblically personified as the ‘Prince of the Power of the Air’ (Ephesians 2:1–2). The emptying of all authentic forms of human identity — and the resultant vacuum in the human soul — at long last offers this evil spirit an opportunity to take shape in humanity itself. It is this force that will ultimately take possession of the ‘dead soul’ of Western man:
It is the end of the world, hardly the end we imagined. Not so long ago, it was feared fire would rain from the sky, the earth would tremble and crack and the sea would swell over the land. But it is the unseen, the bodiless that holds humankind’s end, the end of all things: it ends with the wind. It came quietly, a breath, a breeze, a storm, a lie, a betrayal, a murder. Then it grew relentless and with its never-ending flow came its fever of friend against friend, brother against brother, child against parent and, finally, man against himself. Since then, time, death and chance have hurried by, drifting towards complete decay.
— The Wind (Michael Mongillo, 2001)
The cultural-historical prelude to the Zombie Apocalypse is slow-paced: the first subtle hints at the rise of the ‘living dead’ date back to the late-19th century artistic genres of the revenant and the vampire, fully developed in literature by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla 1872) and Guy de Maupassant (Le Horla 1887) and in painting by John Collier (Lilith 1892) and Edvard Munch (Vampire 1895). The scientific discovery of the phenomenon of the ‘living dead’ follows in the psychoanalytic description of narcissism by Sigmund Freud (Einführung des Narzissmus 1914). But it is only in the late-20th century cultural-historical analyses of Tom Wolfe (The ‘Me’ Decade 1976) and Christopher Lasch (The Culture of Narcissism 1979) that a direct psychohistorical link is first made between the old archetype of the classical vampire and the new stereotype of the modern narcissist. During the late 70s cultural historians began to describe the first stages of a ‘narcissism epidemic’ in the Western heartland. In these same years, the Zombie Apocalypse became a standard element of the Western cinematic repertoire: George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978) defines the new genre.
The subconscious fears that are projected on the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ are fed by the dissolution of all forms of social cohesion caused by the ‘narcissism epidemic’ that struck Western society during the rise of the baby boomer generation. During the last part of the reign of the baby b
oomers, this epidemic of atomised extreme hyper-individualism is further strengthened by digital technologies: the effective replacement of personal communication by ‘social media’ and of social activities by ‘virtual reality’ amplifies the narcissistic tendency of self-objectification and de-personification. The technological abstraction of social interaction (Facebook instead of face time) and the technological manipulation of social identity (‘profile’ instead of personality) also strengthen the societal tendency towards feminization: external presentation and social consensus are strengthened at the expense of substantive content and abstract ethics. The masculine public sphere is increasingly replaced by the feminine private sphere: the obsessive fixation on ‘image’ in the ‘social media’ and on ‘smartphone’ ego-communication is literally changing the cityscape, the workplace and the political arena. Masses of self-absorbed ‘sleep walkers’, staring down with glassy eyes, can be seen shuffling around in amorphous crowds in all Western cities. Thus, the first phase of the Zombie Apocalypse is an invasion of the masculine public sphere by the feminine private sphere and a replacement of public affairs by private priorities: egoism and narcissism become the new standards of behaviour and interaction. In this regard, the rise of neo-liberal nihilism in the Reagan/Thatcher years constitutes a watershed moment. The second phase of the Zombie Apocalypse is the loss of rudimentary public norms of behaviour and presentation: the abolition of the public sphere results in the abolition of all sense of shame. The narcissist motto ‘be yourself’ is increasingly dominating dress, speech and attitude. The massive presence of unwashed ‘zombies’, dressed in rags and making random growling noises, can be observed in any major Western city. The third phase of the Zombie Apocalypse is unprovoked aggression (random violence, ‘school shootings’): the unrestrained dominance of egoism and narcissism in the former public sphere emboldens extremist elements and triggers a chain reaction of verbal and physical violence.