On my way home after the bar, which is a lonely walk, I spoke with one of my long-time friends from the black metal genre. Black metal, for those who do not know, is so "social Darwinist" that Nazis are considered moderates; it is uncontroversial among the smarter kids of my generation that 90% or more of humanity must die, and the genre we produced has a similar view: kill off everyone but the highly functional, burn the churches, and restore natural selection everywhere.

For example, one of my friends from this genre has been of the opinion that we need to breed wolves and let them loose in the suburbs, towns, and cities. The point would be that anyone who could not have the wit to defend themselves or run away successfully was genetically unfit and needed to die, especially the obese, retarded, insane, homeless, Christian, and stupid.

The mythos of the "unpunished herd" and "Christian Holocaust" is strong with this group, which in a Nietzschean take sees Christianity as the root of weakness in the West. Certainly Christianity, Judaism, liberalism, Islam, and Mongolian-style philosophies share a view where the individual is so important that means-over-ends conformity must be enforced on the group in order to avoid interrupting the individualism of single citizens. However, in my take, this view shows up in every social group, because they are united by the lowest common denominator which is a paranoid fear of life preying on them or obstructing their desires, judgments, feelings, and emotions.

His take on "the JQ" was very black metal: Jews only exist because Christians exist, since Christianity is the non-ethnic variety of Judaism that incorporated Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Nordic pagan thought only because it wanted to be a summary of all religions so that it could out-compete all of those religions. I thought his assessment of Christianity was probably correct, since dualism -- the idea of a perfect Heaven-order and an imperfect natural order as its opposite -- resembled the scapegoating that people do when their lives do not work out as they had hoped more than a specific culture or tradition, although this mentality is most common in the third world where people are not only biologically/genetically lower IQ but, owing to zero functional social institutions, tend to be disappointed.

"Jews are just like the Saami or gypsies," he said. They are in the West because their homelands got torn up. Now that they are here, they want to assert themselves so they can feel good about being different. He thought the Nazis were wasting their time using Jews as labor, which he and I both agree is what the Holocaust actually was, a moronic slave labor program where 270k Jews died, in addition to the aforementioned barn-burnings and partisan executions. I still hold the Nazis responsible because their rhetoric made it clear that those who killed Jews would not be punished, enabling old resentments to rise, especially after Kristallnacht, which in my view was a (mostly successful) attempt to drive Jews out of Germany.

"Backfired," he said, explaining that this sent wealthy Jews on to the US and UK instead of Israel, and in those nations, they had more influence. He also opined that Jews made their own bed, since when 40% of the NKVD is Jewish, Lenin and Trotsky are Jewish, and so on, it was inevitable that Europeans were going to see Jews as Communist junk-sellers and gas them. I brought up the counterpoint of Ayn Rand (Alyssa Rosenbaum) who witnessed liberal Jews and gentile socialists taking over in Russia and dispossessing her family of all that it had produced, because in my experience the quarter or so of Jews who are not Democrats tend to be radical social Darwinists who defend the West because it has sheltered them, despite having dual loyalties as any non-WASP does in America.

My friend is only half-WASP, so he partially accepts my take. Like most black metallers, he recognizes that mono-ethnicism is a prerequisite for a non-failing nation, but this leaves him at risk of repatriation to Ireland, where he would also be an outsider. Like I have said, race- and ethnic-mixing is a cruel thing. In his view, the focus on Jews was a mistake because it was obsessive and Christian, built from a view of the world as good/evil, where really the human mind shuttles between order/disorder (Jung) and as a result, human societies struggle to impose realism upon an individualistic herd that engages in flocking and self-promotional behaviors unless disciplined.

We talked about Satan after that. Satan, in my view, is the container into which Abrahamism shuffled all the ancient gods, since in a monotheistic order it becomes increasingly difficult to have multiple gods, although apparently early Christian and Jewish sects did exactly that. Satan represents natural selection, the rising of the strong above the weak (Christianity does the opposite: like the Mongols, it tries to teach the weak to behave as if they were strong, simply because that unity is necessary to subsidize the individualism of members of the Crowd), and the pagan morality of "good to the good, bad to the bad" instead of the third world mentality of "good to my friends only" and the Christian or peer pressure morality of "good to the good, good to the bad."

How funny it is, he observed, that conservatives believe in literal evil/satan and Leftists believe in secular evil/inequality. As if they were two wings of the same bird. I asked if Islam, Christianity, and Judaism were "three weeds from the same root," and he suggests that this was true in varying degrees. Islam was a very stupid religion, he opined, for inbred mixed-race people from the third world, and Judaism was a step up. "Much more consistent," he said.

Christianity was probably a stoned hippie trying to make Judaism gentler, he said, and I did not disagree. It was well-intentioned. Then again, as I mentioned in passing, "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" (old Anglo proverb). He made a final point that sticks with me, which is that all three religions are raging because they are being replaced with a secular religion of science, wealth, and rules that allows for New Age beliefs to be personal hobbies, therefore is lower-cost than any religion, and will take over as these religions age into obsolescence.

At that point, police cars showed up at the gas station that was across from where I was walking at that moment, and we had to detach the call so I could flee what looked like an arrest at gunpoint. It is never good to be around when the bullets start flying, and my fear is that this is what happened to the Jews in the decline of the West.