As Hope Not Hate decided to mention me in this year's State of Hate publication earlier this month, I thought it only fair that I deign to reply. Nick Lols always gives me a chuckle when he writes how insignificant Mjolnir Magazine is, yet is somehow always significant enough to include in his State of Hate comic, which now runs to a staggering 140 pages. I would have to check, but that may be bigger than my old Beano annuals, although with more lowbrow content. At least I managed to shame you into offering it for free this year, and so at last it is value for money.
This is the inaugural edition of "Mjolnir Hammers...." As Roger Scruton
died not long before the recording of this episode, we decided to hammer
conservatism. We look at the historical foundations of conservatism as a
rebranding of Burkean liberalism, its religious aspects grounded in
Christian Protestantism and mercantilism, its primarily economic outlook
as a world view, and its legacy in the present in how it has shifted
the Overton Window. We explore such topics as elitism, aesthetics, the
politics of decline, pessimism and respond to the the fundamental
question: do conservative ideas and ideals hold any value for our people?
If the coronavirus has shown anything, it is the symptoms of a sick world view. In their subservience to and fear of their great god The Economy, the politicians of the so-called democratic West have already cost thousands of lives. It was very easy to stop the virus from spreading early on: close the borders and keep everyone home until all cases have been identified and treated, mobilising the army and police (after being tested for the virus) to keep people supplied. But closing the borders played into the hands of the great demon Nationalism, we were told by the Archbishops of Globalism, and keeping people off work with full pay was a blasphemy against The Economy. The Archbishops of Globalism tell us that we must all serve The Economy, with our very lives if necessary, although heretics have been spreading rumours that The Economy is a false god and was created by the Archbishops to serve themselves. Even worse were the atheistic utterings of the servants of the demon Nationalism, who claimed The Economy was not a god at all and ought to serve the people.
It's meme time again. This time, we have the hypocrisy of the ubiquitous Greta Thunberg - ubiquitous because of her inordinate use of the internal combustion engine supposedly so detrimental to the environment. The current Corona panic gives us opportunity to advertise the film review channel on Youtube. We also expose the fraudsters and bullshit artists of the Aut Right, as ever, as well as reminding people that ALL the mainstream political parties are our enemies. We round off with a very serious point that Judeo-Christianity is the exact opposite to environmentalism. Only Pagan religions, as the etymology suggests, are in tune with Nature.
The supergroup Genesis announced their reformation and subsequent tour at the beginning of the month. The trio of Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins are back after after thirteen years, but, unsurprisingly, original vocalist Peter Gabriel and influential guitarist Steve Hackett will be absent. Collins will delegate drumming responsibilities to his son Nicholas, as he can no longer drum himself due to spinal and nerve problems, and will perform solely in the role he has filled since the departure of Gabriel in 1975, that of lead singer. Even if Gabriel were to come back, which is very unlikely, there is no position for him to fill, as Collins can no longer revert back to drums. Hackett, on the other hand, can no longer fit into a band that has left him and his steadfast adhesion to prog rock behind, in favour of the more commercial pop of the Rutherford-Banks-Collins trio. The trio has, it has to be said, created some worthwhile catchy jingles, but let is not fool ourselves into thinking it is great art.
Do not get me wrong: Tyson Fury is not #ourguy. Yet one cannot let last Saturday night/Sunday morning's heavyweight world championship boxing match pass without comment, for it is often innocuous bread-and-circus events like these that mark sea changes. In the blue corner was Deontay Wilder, an open black supremacist who entered the ring in a cross between the Black Panther superhero costume and one of the Knights who Say Ni! This was to celebrate Black History Month, and his ring walk took him past screens displaying pictures of prominent Negro troublemakers like Malcolm Little and Martin Luthah Kang while his butler rapped about 'black magic', 'black music', 'young, black and gifted', 'Black Lives Matter', 'everything black', 'black medicine', 'black Jesus' and I'm sure the words 'black 'blackety blackety blackety black' appeared at one point. Imagine the outcry had a white boxer celebrated his own people, even in a more nuanced and inoffensive manner than this. I do not begrudge Wilder celebrating the achievements of his own people, but perhaps he would have been better served with people who genuinely sought to elevate their own instead of dragging others down. Happily, Wilder and his entourage were roundly booed by the audience, who overwhelmingly supported his opponent during the fight, which shows how much SJW 'woke' politics is being rejected.
