Weaning Ourselves from Entertainment Media

Charles Chapel
Daily Stormer
March 29, 2014

Sven Longshanks wrote an article recently where he made a compelling analogy: he compared our society’s subversion by the Jews to an animal’s infection by parasites. In a crucial part of his essay, he mentioned that in order for our society to expel the parasite, we as individuals must expel the parasite within ourselves. We are the immune system that can restore western civilization to health, but before we do so it is essential to remove all conditions that prevent us from acting.

There are many things keeping us in inaction. Fear of being fired or socially isolated, or harassed by the government is one of them. But there are a lot of brave young men out there with little to lose – what is it that’s keeping them from doing their duty?

I want to address one of the most significant ways we are kept passive, and what to do to purge this weakness from our lives.

Entertainment Media: The Parasite Within

Most white men, especially when young, crave adventure, danger and risk to some extent. This drive, in older societies, is directly funneled into hunting and waging war. When this is not possible, we have traditionally substituted things like violent sports (like boxing or wrestling) or traveling the world for a while. These things are fine, since they keep the body strong and teach courage and discipline. Other substitutes were not so helpful, like gladiator games where the public watches as other men fight. When the Romans stopped fighting their own wars (hiring mercenaries instead) and tried to feel virile by watching slaves kill each other in the arena, their fall wasn’t far off.

Today, we are plagued with something infinitely worst than mere gladiator games. It is more prevalent, more distracting and more dangerous. And while gladiator games required the Romans to actually leave their homes to attend and meet with other people, our modern entertainment is available inside our own homes. I’m talking of course of electronic entertainment media.

Today all the healthy biological drives of our people are being placated by lifeless electronic substitutes. Our social drives can be satisfied with social media systems like Facebook and Twitter. Our sexual impulses can be satisfied with pornography and other erotic materials online. Our desire to laugh and relax are fulfilled with Youtube videos and sitcoms. Our need for adventure and violence is appeased by playing shooting games. Our desire to create and improve our lives is replaced with escapism into science fiction and construction games like Minecraft. Even our instinct for a simpler life and a communion with nature is being fulfilled by nature documentaries and survival simulators.

Why are those things bad for us? Isn’t it healthy to want to fulfill our basic psychological needs and find an outlet for our biological drives? The problem is that all of these electronic substitutes are NOT really fulfilling our needs – they are merely giving us the illusion of satisfaction, keeping us content while we remain inactive. In a normal and healthy state of being, fulfilling our needs requires effort and sacrifice. For example, if we want to eat, we must plant and care for a garden, or hunt animals. Then we must prepare and cook the food. The satisfaction of eating is offset by the effort we expend to do it. This maintains our mental equilibrium.

Electronic entertainment keep us superficially content while we sit on our couches, without the need for any kind of effort. This locks us into a cycle of inaction – why make painful efforts if we can just take it easy and still feel good? It is our unfulfilled desires and drives which push us to action, at least in a physical sense. In order to maintain our energy and vigor, we need to experience strain and hardship. Years of sitting in front of a screen will turn a man into a human slug!

In order to rebuild our willpower and our capacity to take real action, it is essential to quit all these forms of electronic entertainment, and revert back to REAL human activities. But it is impossible to quit all entertainment and leave this huge hole in our lives; we must fill this vacuum or else we risk going back to our unhealthy habits out of sheer boredom. As much as possible, we should strive to find healthy and productive substitutes to electronic entertainments.

Making the Switch

If you spend much time on Facebook, chatting with distant friends and looking at pictures of relatives, try to start maintaining relationships in real life instead. Invite friends and family over for diner or just to hang around. If you don’t have much of a social circle, just join activities in domains you like and make an effort to integrate with the group. Organize activities yourself if you can. For those of us who relax by watching hours of youtube videos or sitcoms on television, try to go out with friends to see local improv and comedy shows. Invite people over to play board games and social games after dinner.

Many of us, especially young men, are into military video games. These are a effortless way to channel our natural aggression and violent energy. But we need to channel that powerful energy into something real instead: take up boxing or wrestling (or whatever martial art is available nearby). Alternatively, if you have the money and the opportunity, join an airsoft community or shoot real guns at a firing range. All of these should scratch the same itch, while building up willpower, discipline and valuable skills. By channeling our energy into games, it just drains all our aggression away. Martial activities, on the other hand, cultivates this aggression and makes it a force under our control.

This modern world is so artificial and separated from nature and our traditional lifestyle, that roleplaying and adventure games are a popular escape. But instead of having virtual adventures, why not have real ones instead? Plan a road trip, or travel abroad if you can afford it. Or just drive around the country, trek through nature, etc. Anything that can provide that feeling of moving around, being free, seeing new sights…

Creative games, where the main point is to build structures, are becoming more and more popular. Our people have a natural drive to craft things, to build and create – this impulse is at the root of our civilization. That creative people are wasting their talents and energy into virtual worlds like “Minecraft” and “Space engineer” is a tragedy. Especially as nationalists, there is so much to build for the future… Why not learn construction, electronics, wood working or other useful and creative skills? You can take classes or just offer local workshops free help to learn the trade on your free time. Alternatively, just study books and experiment in your backyard/garage.

Even the interest in science-fiction, that many intelligent people have, has a paralyzing effect. Dreamers should work on bringing about the future instead of reading endless speculation about it. You don’t need years of study, just think of an idea you’d want to realize and learn as you go. You should start by realizing projects that have immediate practical purposes, and that are already being worked on by other people. For example, build a wood gasifier to run your car on firewood, or a rocket mass heater to cut down your heating bill. Experiment with natural materials like straw, vermiculite and cob to design the most energy efficient wall design. These are all projects you can work on with minimal tools and materials, and still improve upon existing designs.

There have always been an interest in skill games, even before the advent of videogames. But even things like dart throwing or pool have the benefit of improving our physical coordination. Instead of being satisfied building up your skills at “Guitar hero” or “Pacman,” learn real skills like playing an instrument, knife-throwing, lock-picking or whatever you like. There are instructional DVD’s, books and local teachers for almost any skill you can imagine.

But we often play games, watch television or linger on the internet without really getting pleasure out of it, but rather just to make the time pass. This is terrible. If you’re bored but feeling too lazy to do chores or work out, go outside to walk around the neighborhood. The fresh air and mild exercise will be much better than more sitting around the house. While out there, don’t be afraid to run around, hop over obstacles and generally spend a little energy. Don’t think of it as working out, just as “being alive” for a while.

Pornography is a different beast altogether. There have already been several articles here on the Daily Stomer which address the health problems that accompany porn addiction. Of course, the only true substitute for porn is to have a fulfilling relationship in real life. By replacing the entertainment media in your life with social and physical activities, you will be more likely to find a suitable mate anyway, as well as building up the vitality you’ll need to sustain the relationship.

Notice that the one constant in all these suggestions is that they all involve doing things in the real world, with your physical body, rather than being abstract and intellectual activities. Replacing reading websites with reading a book is not much of an improvement. In order to train ourselves for action, our body needs to exercise it’s faculties.

To facilitate making this switch, I would strongly recommend putting away your television, computer and game consoles in a closet where you won’t see it and where it would require significant effort to take it out again and install it. This will make it much easier to maintain your discipline in the first week or two. Once your new lifestyle is established, it won’t be so dangerous to install them back. Another trick would be to put away sofas and comfortable chairs for that initial period, to prevent yourself from just laying around doing nothing (alternatively, wrap them in something unpleasant like aluminum foil or wax paper). If you have an old “dumb” phone laying around, switch your sim card away from your “smart” phone which contains all your games and access to social media. Again, this is only temporary while you are “detoxifying” your mind away from the jewish poison of electronic entertainment.

The Time for Action

As global events progress, the time is approaching when we will have to ACT. Every moment until then, we must prepare. We must learn valuable skills, build social networks and aquire the tools and materials we might need some day. This is a lot of work. We’ll never get to it as long as we are spending most of our free time in front of a screen being entertained by watching other people doing something while we stay put.

Try to live for two weeks without television, without Facebook, without your Xbox, or whatever means of electronic entertainment you might have. It might be hard at first, but if you go through the experiment to the end, you will be amazed at the energy you will have.