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It must be nice to beat that straw man, of course I'm not claiming omnipotence, I'm recognizing the power of propaganda and myth.
The Jews have been so successful in that arena not, foremost, because they are smarter than us, but because they are more racist than us; they actually worship their own race and even secular Jews frequently hold their ethnic identity in a regard that is completely psychologically foreign to white people. Their content can be decrypted, its meaning can be discerned and it can be countered, it's not all-powerful.
It didn't produce better science, it didn't win because it was smarter or more empirically-minded or better for society, it won because the most influential thinkers involved were consciously thinking about opposing anti-Semitism with the ideas they were promoting, and they won with academically authoritarian tactics we are all familiar with today.
I think there's value in some of their ideas even if I disagree on how they are applied. Certainly the Dissident Right itself is adjacent to ideas in critical theory like the Culture Industry.
That's why the DR is actually avant-garde. Conservatives just whine that Critical Theory has rained on our parade and they want to wind back the clock on collective consciousness which is neither possible nor desirable. The DR is taking the ideas that have merit from the Critical Theorists and applying them against the prevailing culture. That's a feature and not a bug of the DR. The way out isn't backwards, the only way out is through and that does mean using Critical Theory's tools that have merit against the prevailing culture.
Oh come on, 'completely psychologically foreign', total nonsense, what was that Hitler episode then? Besides, your DR friends like to trot out that whites tend to have less ingrained pro-white bias than other races, like say blacks. So if that, and not intelligence, is the main difference, you'll have to explain why the blacks didn't corrupt us.
Generally throughout history, empires who accepted jews more readily(and other persecuted religious groups like huguenots) , tended to dominate in science and war (Holland, then Britain and the US) while those who reject them bite the dust (Spain, nazi germany).
Hitler did run an experiment, and it produced results that weren‘t flattering to his thesis and yours, and they were unequivocal. Turns out if you thoroughly ‚cleanse your race‘, you don‘t get a glorious 1000-year germania, your country turns to rubble in about 10. But at least he understood how discredited his theory was by the experiment. Why are you less capable of updating than Hitler?
Assuming all you say about jews is true, the only reasonable response, and certainly mine, would be to accept to be ruled by the superior race and thank them for not destroying us like they did nazis. A few million jews faced off against 100 million homogeneous aryans, and the aryans had to beg for mercy in the end. You could say the Will of the strong Triumphed, and people respect strength, by necessity. It‘s over, you‘re wasting your time, take the black pill.
What is the difference between you incorporating jewish thought and americans accepting captain america memes?
Blablabla the public had a strongly held belief, the jews are ethnically self-interested, so they created critical theory to manipulate them, and here you are, regurgitating it, unaware of its cryptic power, internalizing the message and passing it off as your own valid opinion, rather than reflecting the ethno-political agenda of the mythmakers .
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