Jonathan Bowden - Western Civilization Bites Back

W ESTERN C IVILIZATION B ITES B ACK

by

J ONATHAN B OWDEN

E DITED BY G REG J OHNSON

Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.

San Francisco

2014

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Kevin I. Slaughter

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Peter Paul Rubens, The Tiger Hunt, 16151616

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-935965-76-3

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935965-77-0

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bowden, Jonathan, 1962-2012, author.
Western civilization bites back / by Jonathan Bowden ; edited by Greg Johnson.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-935965-76-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-935965-77-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-935965-78-7 (electronic book : alk. paper)
1. Civilization, Western--Philosophy. 2. Paganism. 3. Religion and culture. 4. Hopkins, Bill, 1928-2011--Criticism and interpretation. I. Johnson, Greg, 1971- editor. II. Title.
CB19.B599 2013
909'.09821--dc23
2013037545

C ONTENTS

E DITORS F OREWORD

Western Civilization Bites Back collects transcripts of seven lectures by Jonathan Bowden, supplemented by two shorter published pieces and the transcript of Jonathans last interview. As with all of Jonathans works, these pieces range as far and wide as his vast learning, powerful imagination, and genius for seeing connections could take him. But I have strung them together on a common thread: Bowdens conviction that the crisis of the white race is ultimately moral, both in cause and in cure.

The moral cause is the dominant Christian and liberal values system which elevates weakness over strength, equality over excellence, humility over pride, the guilty conscience over the innocence of becoming. This moral programming has been used to demoralize and dispossess whites not just for our many collective crimes and mistakes but also for our greatness: for the beauty of our people and their magnificent achievements in philosophy and letters, art and architecture, science and technology, exploration and statesmanshipexcellences which other races seldom equal and scarcely ever surpass.

Christian and liberal values have never been consistent with biological flourishing and cultural greatness, and their dominance has led, inexorably, to whites being essentially talked out of planetary dominance and onto the path of extinction within the span of less than a centuryan astonishing reversal of fortunes in a historical blink of the eye.

Talk of equality and pity led, first, to a pervasive lowering of standards and the raisingeven privilegingof the marginalized within white communities. Then the same moral pleading was used to bring about the inclusion, equality, and eventual hegemony of Jews and other non-whites within our societies. Once Jews gained sufficient control over education, culture, and the mass media, the path from white guilt to white dispossession has been immensely accelerated.

Even the massive use of coercion to advance white dispossessionfor example, the American Civil War, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Second World War, and the pervasive drive to criminalize ethnocentric speech and thought throughout white societiescould not have happened before whitesspecifically elite whites in positions of power and influencehad been essentially talked into them on moral grounds.

The moral cure for our decline is what Nietzsche called a transvaluation of values: the creation of a new moral hierarchyor the return of a very old onethat is consistent with the biological and cultural flourishing of our race. We need a value system that is both pre-Christian and biological, a value system that prizes the striving of life for differentiation, struggle, and excellence.

Effecting this transvaluation is an inescapably intellectual and thus elitist project involving the deconstruction of the hegemonic value system and the formulation and propagation of a healthy alternative.

But there is a sense in which transvaluation is deeply populist and subintellectual, for the root of it is our peoples recovery of spontaneous animal vitalityour will to persist as individuals and to live on through our raceand a simple refusal to be robbed of our heritage and destiny by egalitarian sob stories. It is the refusal to be bogged down in morbid conscientiousness, self-examination, and guilt in the name of nave, spontaneous, vital self-assertion.

This is the sense of Bowdens recommendation that we just step over the guilt trips and tales of woe. Vital beings with a sense of destiny and a drive for glory cannot be bothered with spurious historical crimes and mistakes or even real ones .

Answering the arguments of those who wish to swindle us out of our future is all well and good. But a healthy organism cannot be talked out of its existence, period. Thus the deeper victory is to arrive at the conviction that all such arguments simply do not matter. Winning an argument is nothing compared to this triumph of the will.

In editing these transcriptions, I punctuated for maximum intelligibility, added the first names of many historical figures, supplied a few missing words, deleted a few false starts, and added the minimum necessary sprinkling of explanatory and corrective notes. The passages that appear in quotation marks in Jonathans speeches are, of course, usually his paraphrases, not exact quotes. Those who wish to consult the original recordings at www.counter-currents.com will see that nothing extraneous has been added and nothing essential removed.

I wish to thank Michael Woodbridge, Jonathans literary executor, for his blessing on this project; Michael Polignano, for recording Western Civilization Bites Back and Jonathans last interview and then in recovering the latter recording from a broken flash drive; and all the individuals who recorded and made available Jonathans lectures.

I wish to thank Michael Polignano for transcribing Western Civilization Bites Back, Credo: A Nietzschean Testment, and Western Civilization: A Bullet Through Steel; Davied E. Clarke for transcribing Marxism and the Frankfurt School and Revisionism: Hard and Soft, Left and Right; V. S. for transcribing Hans-Jrgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahls Heir? and Bill Hopkins: An Anti-Humanist Life; V. S. and S. F. for transcribing Jonathans last interview; and the many loyal readers of Counter-Currents/ North American New Right who helped us complete and correct these transcripts after they were placed online.

I also wish to thank Matthew Peters and Tim Reus for their careful proofreading; Kevin Slaughter for his always excellent design work; and all the friends and supporters of Counter-Currents without whom this book, and all of the others, would be impossible.

Finally, I wish to thank Kevin MacDonald, Adrian Davies, Alex Kurtagi, and Tom Suni for their promotional quotes.

Once again, this book is for Jonathan.

Greg Johnson

San Francisco

September 15, 2013

W ESTERN C IVILIZATION

B ITES B ACK

Well, I dont really speak to a topic, but you need something to fasten your mind on when youre engaged in a speech. Speeches are about energy, and are about power, and about how you utilize power and how you channel it. Im whats called a mediumistic speaker, so I hear the voice instant by instant before I speak, and when you stand up you hear what youre going to say a fraction of a second before it comes out of your mouth. What Id like to talk about is Western civilization and how we can save it.

Now the crisis of the West is ongoing, and everybody knows what it is. In the circumstances of the United StatesIve only ever been here twicethe prognosis for decay is well-advanced. The people who created the United States are on the defensive: theyre on the defensive psychologically, and emotionally, and linguistically, and culturally. People are comfortable, at least those that are, and a lot hit by recession, but everyone is worried about what the future will hold. Demographically, the people in this room could well be a minority in 40 years, maybe less than 40 years, maybe more than 40 years; maybe it doesnt matter if its 40 years or 44 or 64 or 35.