THE phrase “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun” is often attributed to Hermann Göring, but it is actually an incorrectly paraphrased line from a work by the Nazi playwright Hanns Johst. Despite this statement, it remains a fact that German National-Socialism was able to sweep to power by ‘tapping’ an existing vein and making use of a formidable counter-cultural resistance that had been steadily growing since the late-nineteenth century. Culture, you see, is the key to political success and the Nazis – disappointingly, given their active misappropriation and suppression of authentic European culture – made rather good use of it. This has great relevance for those of us who long to stem the tide of globalisation and bring the imposition of liberalism and capitalism to an end.

The philosopher and media theorist, Marshall McLuhan, observed that cultural transformation is increasingly achieved through art and I would extend this to other humanities such as literature. Think of the way in which the countries of northern Europe, for example, have spent the last few decades filling their libraries, schools and universities with unlimited volumes that set out to promote a multi-cultural society. This began at a time when the populations of such countries were overwhelmingly indigenous, but whilst it may have seemed ludicrous for children to have been swamped with visions of a society that was not actually in existence at the time, particularly in more rural areas, these things have since come to pass. It is incredible to think that the unstinting efforts of academia and its court publishers have now entered the mainstream and that which initially seemed to have been taken out of context or completely fabricated – i.e. stories about African ‘Swedes’ or references to Turkish ‘Germans’ – is something that most Europeans now take for granted. Saying that, it has not been quite so harmonious as we were led to believe.

Similarly, over the last few decades our television and cinema screens have been filled with multi-racial propaganda aimed at facilitating the same cultural ends. The American social critic, William Irwin Thompson, has some very interesting things to say about the way in which cultural transformation is achieved. He believes that these enormous changes are experienced, not as an event, but as a myth:

“A horizon provides an edge to our experience; if we move closer to it, it moves away, for it is not the content of our experience but the structure of our knowing. And so it is with myth and history. Myth is the horizon of history, in its modality as the past, it is the world of legend; in its modality as the future, it is the world of prophecy and science fiction. If we try to move into this horizon bodily, to rent a flat in Atlantis or freeze our bodies for later regeneration in some future-perfect science in which death will have been conquered, we try to move into the horizon and eliminate the sky to make it prosaic, literal and three-dimensional as the ego. This form of psychic fundamentalism flattens out experience to crush the multidimensionality of the universe […] Precisely because consciousness is multidimensional, we need horizons, for there is always more going on with us than what takes place in historical events of personal conversations” (Pacific Shift, 1985).

This, of course, is exactly what has been taking place over the last few decades and those who control and administer culture – particularly through the mass media – have gradually moved us towards a period of sweeping cultural change. This, they have achieved by stealth, simply by familiarising young minds with the world of tomorrow; a tomorrow that has now arrived in the shape of mass immigration and political correctness.

Another thinker, Jean Gebser, developed a theory known as Kulturphilosophie (’culture philosophy’) and insisted that the evolution of consciousness – in this case, that of culture – is achieved by viewing “acts of creation” such as mythology, stone carvings or medieval painting in a more phenomenological context. In other words, by examining them in association with a direct experience of consciousness itself. Think about what I said above in relation to a formerly marginalised group of liberal-leftists presenting multi-cultural ideas at a time when European societies were far more homogeneous and how odd that may have appeared. If one had the ability to travel back in a time-machine, therefore, and experience those early efforts at cultural brainwashing at first hand, one would view them retrospectively in the sense that for us they would point to the more generally accepted realities of the twenty-first century. Now, imagine being contemporaneous with the past and having no knowledge of the future whatsoever. It would still be possible, for those of a more astute mindset, to look at these politically-charged artifacts from a phenomenological perspective and realise that in terms of cultural consciousness the writing was already on the wall for those generations waiting further down the line.

Whilst this might sound like basic common sense, and let’s not forget that many people did perceive the shape of things to come and bravely spoke out against it, the most important thing we can do in the present climate is to look around for signs of another transformation that can finally bring an end to the cultural deceit of the last fifty or sixty years. Don’t waste too much time, will you, because the signs are nowhere to be seen. Particularly in western Europe, at least, and certainly not in any significant or recognisable form. The problem we face today, apart from the fact that the subtle propaganda of the past has since become the “psychic fundamentalism” of the present, is that there is either little or no attempt whatsoever to engender a viable alternative. In fact most of you are so busy watching Netflix or wasting time with party politics that you are doing absolutely nothing to help formulate the beginnings of another potential long-term transformation. Given that the globalists have now appropriated our cultural heritage to the extent that European mythology is plundered by Hollywood and historical demographics are manipulated beyond recognition, one would think that anyone opposed to such developments would be working around the clock to create its antithesis. But no, most people are happily lining up to gulp down their daily quota of anti-culture from the poisoned media well and allowing others to maintain a monopoly on culture itself

The only way that we can ever begin to counteract this worrying situation is to develop a new form of consciousness in the way that people such as McLuhan, Thompson and Gebser have described. Either you wither away in front of the latest internet series or stand up and fight back. One recalls the words of T.S. Eliot: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” Form your own book club, create a poetry circle, grow food, write a novel, paint something, establish a co-operative, take up amateur dramatics, form a music project or set up a home-education network. Do this with people of like-mind and others will follow. Work towards an eventual tipping-point. More importantly, if you really care about alternative culture then stop filling your heads with adversarial junk. In order to know the future, we must study the past. Better still, studying the past may even help us to create a future. As Gebser explained, it is possible to develop a form of consciousness “encompassing all time and embracing man’s distant past and his approaching future as a living present.”

Understanding the collective power of human consciousness in light of phenomenology can smooth the way for a guided unfolding of cultural destiny and it is a question of establishing precisely where the actual goal is seen to be latently present. Never underestimate the power of a few determined souls.