January
30th 2009
Posted under Culture & Political Philosophy & Survival of the West
Scene taken from Naruto Shippuden Episode 89: “The Price of Power”.
Parents seeking a virtuous alternative to Stan Lee should consider the Naruto series.
Weaver on 30 Jan 2009 at 10:27 am #
YouTube entry explaining the characters and events of the video:
Dostoevsky on 30 Jan 2009 at 3:16 pm #
Having lived in Japan I can attest that their culture has been infected by NWO ideology just like everywhere else. However, it is also true that the roots of Japanese identity run pretty deep, and the PC hangups and brainwashing that has become almost the foundation for most Americans’ perception of the world has yet to achieve absolute hegemony there.
Princess Mononoke was a pretty good piece of work, I thought.
Unlike the modern reconstructed Southerner the modern Japanese is unlikely to see his people solely as villains; informative books on the Imperial Japanese Navy are actually quite popular right now. I suppose getting A-bombed can go a long way toward keeping your culture from degenerating into a self-flagellating guilt-fest.
The wearing of kimonos is not confined to the occasional kitschy retro indulgence; it was not uncommon to see women both young and old wearing them while riding the metro line in Tokyo.
You’re 100% right about mainstream — Marvel & DC — comic books and their pernicious effects. The recent one that really made the top of my head nearly pop off was this:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/images/0804/cap375.jpg
Which of course turns out to be a plot concocted by the sinister Red Skull:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/images/0805/cap38.jpg
So, talk about disgusting — gay superheroes are small fry. The message of the (NYC-based) comic book industry is that anybody who opposes the buying and selling of our government by special interests, who views something fundamentally wrong and phony about our current setup, and who thinks that, hey, maybe the choices in our elections shouldn’t be limited to two (largely indistinguishable) political parties must be… a neo-Nazi.
Gasp! Did somebody say Third Party! Don’t you know 3rd parties are deadly threats to freedom?!
Clowns who have zero knowledge of history, literature, art and who live cocooned in the megalopolis, utterly disconnected from reality … then take it upon themselves to mold the minds of the young. Don’t get me started.
Weaver on 30 Jan 2009 at 7:34 pm #
Princess Mononoke sounds excellent – thanks for the tip.
The South was beaten up pretty badly. I dunno – propaganda can twist a brutal and immoral invasion and occupation into a benevolent act. Today, as you point out, we have a guilt complex despite our side historically being the moral side. As it used to be said: the South won the moral victory but lost the war as a whole.
I’m sure there’s some little Marxist propagandist in a corner of Japan preaching of how Japan deserved the 2 nukes that defeated evil fascism, and should thus be grateful…
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Japan has some pretty bad comics like Code Geass which is about Lelouch – a little boy genius from “Britannia” (America) who saves the world by bringing about a new global order. Lelouch gains a super power ability of brainwashing those he looks at with his eye (justification for propaganda?)
Lelouch defeats his father who is attempting to bring about Ragnarok and thus a uniting of past generations with present. The father is very much a social darwinist and elitist too.
Then Lelouch defeats his brother who is attempting to force the world into peace via domination – this is explained as his brother attempting to preserve the world as it is and thus to prevent change.
Lelouch wins the family feud over the world, but his ultimate strategy for saving the world is bizarre. First Lelouch dominates the world via force and unites the world in hatred against Lelouch’s rule. Then Lelouch hires his bodyguard to kill Lelouch in public while feigning to be this hero of the people. The bodyguard wore a disguise, so his identity is unknown. The world “hero” then is a symbol which anyone with the disguise could conceivably fill.
This uniting of the world by a common hatred of course reminds of the Marxist strategy of uniting the world against global capitalism, and then overthrowing it. Global capitalism and free trade then, as viewed by Marxists, is secretly on the Marxist side, but it’s feigned to be the enemy.
After Lelouch is killed (and he does appear to actually die) the world is “freed” and “united from past fighting”, and Lelouch has ensured the progressive world that lives on with hope for the future will endure, as opposed to the reactionary and conservative alternatives of his father and brother respectively.
In conclusion, Code Geass is glittering Marxism.
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Interestingly Naruto’s antagonists are usually globalists seeking to dominate the world – several, including the current one, have been demagogues preaching peace and manipulating their followers.
Naruto just wants to preserve the village order and protect his own village. He wants peace but resists those seeking to destroy the present world for some New World Order of the mind.
RonL on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:33 am #
How were the Japanese moral? They were not seeking independence, but conquest. And they turned on the US and European colonies to achieve it.
No one forced them to invade China or attack Pearl Harbor. And no one forced them to offer actual terms of surrender, which we would have accepted. And no one forced the war fanatics to try to overthrow the Emperor after he surrendered.
Weaver on 31 Jan 2009 at 11:32 am #
America didn’t need an unconditional surrender from Japan. Dropping nuclear bombs was immoral.
FDR clearly provoked Japan. Japan’s attack was inexcusable and immoral to be sure, but there’s more to the story. Japan was encouraged to attack Pearl Harbour in order to knock out America from the Pacific so that Japan could be free to access needed oil supplies.
The US shouldn’t have even been in the Pacific. Sprawling across more than a hemisphere, the US should have expected to be sucked into foreign conflicts.
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I’m not defending Japan, but Japan was wronged by the atomic bombs. Japan wronged the US before the attack, but evil does not justify evil.
Dostoevsky on 01 Feb 2009 at 7:33 pm #
RonL,
I’m not sure who you’re responding to, but if myself then you may have read more into my comments than I actually meant. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, and Australia as well, and am quite familiar with the more ghastly episodes of Japanese imperialism — some of which rival the Nazis in perversity if not in scale.
My point is that this is not a justification for people willing the wholesale destruction of their own heritage, culture, identity, and tradition. An easy analogy would be the treatment of the Native American here. Aside from white nationalists I don’t know of anyone who would see the breaking of treaties and extermination of peoples as excusable, or as anything other than blots on the history of European colonization of this continent.
The difference is how one reacts to such historical episodes. The conservative remembers them as part of history and tries to learn from them, whereas the liberal uses them to justify the eradication of traditional American culture via things like multiculturalism and illegal immigration.
Robert Lee on 03 Feb 2009 at 3:02 am #
“Aside from white nationalists I don’t know of anyone who would see the breaking of treaties and extermination of peoples as excusable, or as anything other than blots on the history of European colonization of this continent.”
You may know a lot about a lot of things. However, you know absolutely nothing about white nationalism.
White nationalists are opposed to the oppression and genocide of all races. However, they don’t feel so pathetically guilty about the actions of their ancestors. Also, they know that some brutal acts were necessary for the creation of America.
World history (and not just European history) is full of invasions and conquests.
RonL on 03 Feb 2009 at 5:30 am #
Weaver,
We could have negotiated and actually there were efforts. Japan refused to give up China and disarm. And the people who gave the japanese subjects wooden spears and manned torpedoes had no cencern about mass killing of Japanese. Better, Japan die than be dishonored in their sick minds.
Refusing to sell oil, steel and weapons is not a provocation except to a regime that puts conquest above the well being of its people. The Japanese refused to negotiate in good faith.
Had the Japanese merely invaded the Philippines, Wake and Guam, you might have a point about far-flung bases. But they attacked Hawaii and later invaded Alaska.
Dostoevsky,
I was responding to Weaver. My only complaint about your post is that you gave away the ending to Code Geass. I’m watching it on Cartoon Network and I am not alone.
I admire the Japanese for maintaining an ethno-nationalist state, despite their serious problems. (I find Japanese mistreatment of Koreans piculuar, since the Japanese were Korean invaders.) I don’t appreciate their unwillingness to face the true crimes of the Imperial Japan. It dishonors them and shows lack of courage.
Weaver on 03 Feb 2009 at 2:31 pm #
Ron,
Hawaii was where our navy was. If they were to go after a US territory, attacking Hawaii was the way to go about it.
Hawaii has a history I’m not fond of either… I’m not America bashing either of course – this imperialism ends up damaging the core nation, though you’ve heard those arguments.
Anyway, the Koreans y’know ruled over Japan for awhile.
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Apologies for ruining Code Geass. It is an incredible series, though Marxist.
Death note is pretty too as is Claymore. I watch these out of “Culture War” interest… I dunno what I hope to gain from them, but that’s partly why the excite me, and partly I guess I just enjoy them.
Bleach bores me and is corrupting at times, so I quit following that.