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mimer...@aol.com (Mimereader) wrote in message news:<20020517224833...@mb-ce.aol.com>...
> The PLE Will Also Reclaim & Utilize Abstract Art:
> Since World War 2, it has often been taken for granted in White Nationalist
> politics that there wouldn't be much accommodation made for abstract art
> traditions in any future cultural revival. And it should also be taken note of,
> how no such cultural revival on behalf of the purely realistic garnered much
> support either.
>
> The error of this prejudice about the abstract is easy to overlook wherever
> White nationalist politics is dominated by Anglo Saxon American social tastes,
> or even the German NS influences offered later by cultists. And so any interest
> in - or claim to - some of the leading abstract art movements in European
> history was simply abandoned, where eventually they became ignorantly credited
> to the intellectual portfolios of our opponents.
>
> Little or nothing was said in most American nationalist publications about the
> relationship of the Futurist art movement to Italian fascism, or of Vorticism
> to British fascism, or the cousin to both in Russia, Constructivism; especially
> when the latter became more distanced from Futurism and fascism and was
> hijacked by Marxist propagandists.
>
> Additionally, as many artists have now abandoned the limitations of older art
> traditions and mediums anyway, to take up the enormous potential of computer
> graphics, where anything can be routinely synthesized, it is wiser to emphasize
> the freedom and value of White nationalist artists over any tight definition of
> social responsibilities, limitations, or cultural heritage
>
> My own more Anglo Saxon taste might dictate that the traditional and realistic
> should dominate what is abstract, but none of us should dismiss these
> influences as being inconsequential. The creative currents of Europe's and
> America's past are part of that bigger view of our cultural tradition, and
> expressing some respect for them will make it a lot easier to gather up the
> many Whites who have any amount of ethnic self-esteem invested in them.
>
> There's even an appropriate quote from the mythologist Joseph Campbell for the
> benefit of those who mistakenly believe, out of their own Nazi cultism, that
> White Americans of various stocks might someday adhere uniformly to German
> realism.
>
> Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy points out that the two principles in art are,
> respectively, the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Dionysius represents dynamism
> which brings things into form and then shatters them. Apollo represents the
> illuminated mind giving form to this process. Ref: 'Virtual Reality' by Howard
> Rheingold 1991 pg. 302
>
> The National Socialist regime actually employed many abstract designs, with
> especially fine examples in their advertising. Then what of the controversy?
> That is actually best revealed by what Hitler repeated at the opening of the
> House of German Art in Munich in 1937:
>
> "To be German is to be clear," and that means that to be German is to be
> logical and true. It is this spirit which has always lived in our people, which
> has inspired painters, sculptors, architects, thinkers, poets, and above all
> our musicians. Ref: Nazi Culture by George Mosse pg. 13
>
> In other words, this is an interpretation of how people naturally communicate
> in the German culture, and those who turn away from it may simply have
> preferred the indirect diplomacy of the French, or something more unpredictably
> Italian.
>
> A Pioneer Little Europe is for all White Americans, and can't afford to cater
> too narrowly to this or that European nation's art history or pride. And while
> some nations do possess a stronger taste for what is realistic, natural, and
> orderly, the PLE must also reintroduce our people to the abstract art movements
> of various European nations that others still appreciate.
>
> By striking some balance or compromise in this matter, we will be better
> prepared to transfer the public's fascination for such interests into the PLE's
> own cultural goals. And it's from there, in the vessel that is Pioneer Little
> Europe, that the past examples will help spur our own cultural revival. How our
> people will tackle the creative challenges of our own times is still yet to be
> seen, but we cannot afford to ignore the tangled inheritance where that journey
> begins.
> __________________
> A PLE is defined as the conscious White community - initially possessing
> greatly contrasting views among its residents - which comes to dominate a
> geographical area.
>
> It is an entity which our opponents and competitors have made no provision to
> account for within the "legal process," thus it has even less reality to them
> than the old White community. As such a PLE is in itself immune from all forms
> of legal liability, without making a mockery of the law.
>
> That is not to declare that a PLE is immune from repression, only that there is
> nothing in the law to prevent it from coming into being, eventually evolving
> into higher levels of legal recognition, and striving for the self
> determination of its residents by any means conscious Whites will support.
>
> A Pioneer/Little Europe is a generic term for any local community where Whites
> live in close proximity to businesses which offer cultural facilities and
> services, most of whom openly support their political revival.
>
> More advanced than the old Little Europes and White communities, Pioneer Little
> Europes are based on a study of the organizing principles shared among the more
> modern political communities that continue to dismember Whites geographically,
> culturally, and politically.
>
> Visit a supporting web site to print out a free copy of the entire PLE
> prospectus, and use the "Advance Scout" forum at Stormfront to either announce
> your own interest in local community building or to find others who already
> believe it's the wave of the future.
>
> http://www.euroknowledge.net/ple.phtml
> Click Here: EuroKnowledge Articles - Pioneer Little Europe …
> http://www.stormfront.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=65
> Click Here: Stormfront White Nationalist Community - Advance Scout
> http://www.whitealliance.org/underground/
> Click Here: WHITE POWER UNDERGROUND
> The PLE Will Also Reclaim & Utilize Abstract Art:
> Since World War 2, it has often been taken for granted in White Nationalist
> politics that there wouldn't be much accommodation made for abstract art
> traditions in any future cultural revival. And it should also be taken note of,
> how no such cultural revival on behalf of the purely realistic garnered much
> support either.
>
> The error of this prejudice about the abstract is easy to overlook wherever
> White nationalist politics is dominated by Anglo Saxon American social tastes,
> or even the German NS influences offered later by cultists. And so any interest
> in - or claim to - some of the leading abstract art movements in European
> history was simply abandoned, where eventually they became ignorantly credited
> to the intellectual portfolios of our opponents.
>
> Little or nothing was said in most American nationalist publications about the
> relationship of the Futurist art movement to Italian fascism, or of Vorticism
> to British fascism, or the cousin to both in Russia, Constructivism; especially
> when the latter became more distanced from Futurism and fascism and was
> hijacked by Marxist propagandists.
>
> Additionally, as many artists have now abandoned the limitations of older art
> traditions and mediums anyway, to take up the enormous potential of computer
> graphics, where anything can be routinely synthesized, it is wiser to emphasize
> the freedom and value of White nationalist artists over any tight definition of
> social responsibilities, limitations, or cultural heritage
>
> My own more Anglo Saxon taste might dictate that the traditional and realistic
> should dominate what is abstract, but none of us should dismiss these
> influences as being inconsequential. The creative currents of Europe's and
> America's past are part of that bigger view of our cultural tradition, and
> expressing some respect for them will make it a lot easier to gather up the
> many Whites who have any amount of ethnic self-esteem invested in them.
>
> There's even an appropriate quote from the mythologist Joseph Campbell for the
> benefit of those who mistakenly believe, out of their own Nazi cultism, that
> White Americans of various stocks might someday adhere uniformly to German
> realism.
>
> Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy points out that the two principles in art are,
> respectively, the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Dionysius represents dynamism
> which brings things into form and then shatters them. Apollo represents the
> illuminated mind giving form to this process. Ref: 'Virtual Reality' by Howard
> Rheingold 1991 pg. 302
>
> The National Socialist regime actually employed many abstract designs, with
> especially fine examples in their advertising. Then what of the controversy?
> That is actually best revealed by what Hitler repeated at the opening of the
> House of German Art in Munich in 1937:
>
> "To be German is to be clear," and that means that to be German is to be
> logical and true. It is this spirit which has always lived in our people, which
> has inspired painters, sculptors, architects, thinkers, poets, and above all
> our musicians. Ref: Nazi Culture by George Mosse pg. 13
>
> In other words, this is an interpretation of how people naturally communicate
> in the German culture, and those who turn away from it may simply have
> preferred the indirect diplomacy of the French, or something more unpredictably
> Italian.
>
> A Pioneer Little Europe is for all White Americans, and can't afford to cater
> too narrowly to this or that European nation's art history or pride. And while
> some nations do possess a stronger taste for what is realistic, natural, and
> orderly, the PLE must also reintroduce our people to the abstract art movements
> of various European nations that others still appreciate.
>
> By striking some balance or compromise in this matter, we will be better
> prepared to transfer the public's fascination for such interests into the PLE's
> own cultural goals. And it's from there, in the vessel that is Pioneer Little
> Europe, that the past examples will help spur our own cultural revival. How our
> people will tackle the creative challenges of our own times is still yet to be
> seen, but we cannot afford to ignore the tangled inheritance where that journey
> begins.
> __________________
> A PLE is defined as the conscious White community - initially possessing
> greatly contrasting views among its residents - which comes to dominate a
> geographical area.
>
> It is an entity which our opponents and competitors have made no provision to
> account for within the "legal process," thus it has even less reality to them
> than the old White community. As such a PLE is in itself immune from all forms
> of legal liability, without making a mockery of the law.
>
> That is not to declare that a PLE is immune from repression, only that there is
> nothing in the law to prevent it from coming into being, eventually evolving
> into higher levels of legal recognition, and striving for the self
> determination of its residents by any means conscious Whites will support.
>
> A Pioneer/Little Europe is a generic term for any local community where Whites
> live in close proximity to businesses which offer cultural facilities and
> services, most of whom openly support their political revival.
>
> More advanced than the old Little Europes and White communities, Pioneer Little
> Europes are based on a study of the organizing principles shared among the more
> modern political communities that continue to dismember Whites geographically,
> culturally, and politically.
>
> Visit a supporting web site to print out a free copy of the entire PLE
> prospectus, and use the "Advance Scout" forum at Stormfront to either announce
> your own interest in local community building or to find others who already
> believe it's the wave of the future.
>
> http://www.euroknowledge.net/ple.phtml
> Click Here: EuroKnowledge Articles - Pioneer Little Europe …
> http://www.stormfront.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=65
> Click Here: Stormfront White Nationalist Community - Advance Scout
> http://www.whitealliance.org/underground/
> Click Here: WHITE POWER UNDERGROUND
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