ZGram - 12/15/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 55

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December 15, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Today you get a shortie.  This one came in snippets to me, as a 
series of afterthoughts on conversations Ernst and I have had on the 
strange lack of cohesion among most comrades in our struggle. 

If there is one read thread that runs through far too many minds, it 
goes like this:  "It is too late.  America has had it.  The enemy is 
everywhere.  It's Doomsday City now - what is the point of even 
trying?  Why don't I retreat into my corner and simply just strum my 
guitar?"

Here Ernst comments on someone of whom he is quite fond but who 
can't seem to pull himself out of his deep depression.  Let's call 
the fellow "John" - gifted linguistically, exceedingly well-read, 
with a large circle of intellectual friends etc. - but in the throes 
of a despair where no light ray seems to bring him relief:

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As I said, I think John is a work in progress.  He has all kinds of 
brilliant contacts and connections.  What he seems to lack is "love 
of our own kind" once more, because libertarianism prevents [such 
gifted people] from experiencing "Volksgemeinschaft."  [The term 
means the community of one's own kind that radiates a feeling of 
belonging.]

That seems to cripple most of these worthwhile people because it's a 
"soul- and feeling-concept" that's hard to describe unless you have 
once felt it.  It's like describing to an American the taste of 
German coffee without the experience of actually having tasted it. 

[What is] a cup of Folgers next to those beautiful, delicate German 
flavors?  So with this feeling - "Volksgemeinschaft".  It's 
something they would have to accept as an article of faith. 

I know how he feels.  I have stood at those same crossroads many a 
time in my long career and struggle.  I want to impress upon John to 
overcome his despair and to not "throw in the towel" because of lack 
of response [from his friends]. 

What people expect in a time of crisis and realignment of 
intellectual forces and events is signs of stability and continuity. 
That's why I have always considered myself an evolutionary rather 
than a revolutionary.  Most revolutions, real ones - rather than 
those anarchistic types created by a handful of psychopaths - are 
conservative in nature and usually look backward, wanting to restore 
some condition or state which once enjoyed - before war, 
catastrophe, invasion, installation of tyranny etc.  History is 
absolutely full of them. 

The American Revolution, Adolf Hitler's Revolution, the collapsing 
of the Wall in 1989 - all [were meant to restore] things once 
enjoyed and then lost or denied.  In America the colonists wanted no 
British interference in their affairs, no British taxes on their 
tea, no British soldiers billeted in their homes etc.  In Hitler's 
[time], people wanted a Germany without the drastic, humiliating 
changes of Versailles;  they wanted their territories back, their 
honor and pride as well as the peace, order and prosperity they had 
once enjoyed.  In America and Canada, we now long for the olden days 
of no smut, no multi-cult, no crime, no inflation, no drugs. 

That is our constituency.  We can offend them, drive them into more 
despair - or we can lead them out of the doldrums by accentuating 
the positive. 

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