Like most people reading this, I’m currently on lockdown and one of the benefits of this is more free time. I wish I were catching up on reading more than I am, but what I am doing is catching up on podcasts and music I have been meaning to listen to. One source of music that I tend to enjoy is listening to the Eurovision contenders. It has certainly decayed in value in recent years, particularly with the notable example of the transsexual from Austria winning a few years back. At its best, Eurovision is an opportunity for every European country to exhibit their unique culture and sounds by putting their best musicians on stage to have a friendly competition.
One can tell in the earlier years that the national cultures were well represented and embraced in order to make each act stand out. In the early years, the winners embraced their native culture and tongue. When a Frenchman sang, he was clearly a Frenchman and you could imagine him singing this with a lit cigarette in his hand in a dimly lit cafe. When a Dutch woman sang, you saw a soft-featured white woman in that sing-songy Germanic tongue. You could imagine little Dutch girls hearing it on the radio, singing along while wearing distinct Dutch dress, potentially while wearing clogs.
The songs began sounding more like contemporary American music starting in the late 1960s or early 1970s. There were also various rule changes that occurred throughout this period. Initially, there was no rule about what language the song had to be, but most countries sang in one of their native tongues. After Sweden sang in English in 1965, a rule was made that countries had to sing in their native tongues. Aside from the period between 1973 and 1976, this was the rule until it was done away with in 1998.
There were three (3) English winners either in Ireland or the UK for the first few years, but the 4th English-language victory was when Sweden’s Abba sang “Waterloo” in 1974. As the rules were relaxed regarding what language the song had to be in, more countries entered with English songs. I could go into detail about each winner, but I can more easily sum it up by pointing out that an English-language song won 33 times, with the second-most language winner being French with 14. Oddly, songs in Hebrew or with Hebrew have 4 wins.
Even in the years with a non-English winner, English was the runner up much of the time. There’s nothing wrong with Ireland or the UK winning in English, but in the past couple of decades, a non-native English person singing in an English language was runner up almost every year. From 1999 to 2019, aside from 2003, 2004, 2007, 2012, the second-place song was in English and sung by a non-native English speaker (though in 2016 it was an Asian representing Australia, so she could have been raised speaking it). Not only were these songs in English, they were also indistinguishable from a song coming out of America. That isn’t to say the songs were bad. In 2014, the Netherlands had a song called “Calm after the Storm,” which is an enjoyable country love song. Musical quality isn’t the main issue.
I encourage you to look up some of these songs from recent years. If you didn’t know the band was European, would you be able to guess the people were from Europe? Would you have any clue what part of Europe the band was from, if not for the video telling you? Instead of a competition between European nations to exhibit their unique sounds, it has become a competition to see what country can imitate American music the most. Countries are abandoning their local traditions, in many cases even importing musicians to represent them.
This is part of the larger trend of deracination that we can see in other media and in athletics. The point of athletic competitions, at least historically, is a chance for individuals to represent their people and gain glory for both themselves and their group. It would make no sense for a Spartan to compete for Athens or a Corinthian to compete for Rhodes in the Ancient Olympics, as it defeats the whole point of seeing what nation produces better athletes to represent them. Look at the Olympic teams or world cup teams today and you’ll see most of the athletes aren’t of the stock of the people they purportedly represent.
This same phenomenon is manifested in American football. Recruiters get athletes from all over the country (or even all over the world) to represent a city. How can a black guy from Florida represent people from Minneapolis, Minnesota? How can a white guy from Idaho represent a mostly Hispanic city in California? They can’t. They’re interchangeable numbers that you’re supposed to get invested in because of a tenuous link you have to the team. When you couple the recruiting efforts by the coaches with how much people move around for jobs, you end up with the cartoonish scenario of rooting for an African on a Midwestern team while sitting in a bar in Texas. This is all part of the same process of deracination and forced uniformity that is happening worldwide.
All the music will sound the same, all the teams will look the same, and the goal is for everyone to look like some indistinguishable middling IQ bot that consume and has no true identity. This is the future our elites want – no true diversity, no regional or national identity, nothing unique or interesting, just cogs in the machine. We can’t let that happen.
-By Dixie Anon
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Unity of language is a mark of conquest.
In Wales after it was all conquered they began to repress customs and language. Particularly bad was what was called the Welsh Not, look it up. Due to worries about a Welsh rebellion like the irish had under wolfe tone they wanted wales totally english. The welsh not was a big stick sometimes with a ball of lead on the end. Children caught using welsh would be handed it. If someone else spoke it his Not was taken and given to whoever last spoke it. At the end of the day whoever had it got beat with it.
You have touched on something I long ago began to notice. The same happened to our beloved SEC football, “LSU” has a team of yankees and Africans, the head clowns in charge also said they would sanction any SEC school that had Confederate ties. Its dead. Tail gating at LSU is a joke where as before it was a very real cultural gathering of us is now a very bizzare, very authoritarian affair.
That is a recent example but I have a million of them, not the least of which is the purposeful murder of our accents.
The problem is that while I have a million examples, as I am sure we all do, nobody is writing them down, codifying them, weaving the reasons behind them and effects of it into OUR narritive and developing the terminology to encapsulate the idea while simultaneously fowarding our narritive everytime the term we developed is used.
Terminology. Terminology. Terminology.
The left are masters of this, “our side” (which are all RINOs who have no ability or desire to do such a thing) wholely are abject failures. I believe that it is due to the fact that yankees=/=Republicans not only are busy making their own to justify their invasion and occupation, our side uses our efforts mostly on a national level and we dont have a soild narritive that we can use as the cord that all others are tied into to create the threads of a narrative.
In addition to the fundamental prerequisites to develop good quality terminology, such as being some what creative, having a decent vocabulary, the will to do it, the means to do it, the time, the macroawareness of not just what you are looking at, but also what our enmies are pushing as a narrative and why, the ability to relate to normie audiences from their viewpoint and most importantly you must be an actual Southerner to articulate our view and the wherewithal to then translate that into….well I could go on, but good effective terminology does not just fall from the sky. It takes a certain degree of insight that cant be taught.
There is one additional obstacle in our seemingly abysmal terminology ability and that is our honest, plainspoken nature. We are too honest for word games, its just our nature, but this is absolutely not a front we can walk away from, it is fundamental to get our narritive out to people that do not have a PHD in American history, in short, normies. The average normie relys, on a conscious but also subconscious level the need gor a story format to learn certain things, such as history. Terminology is the mechanism their minds use to weave it into life and fill in all the blanks. It is the encapsulated form of concepts, understanding and storytelling that young people use to form a narrative into a living picture.
That is why the left says “homophobic” implying that your distaste stems from fear, it makes you at once look scared and scared of gays which makes you look weak and unmanly. It makes the target appear outdated and uncool. Very effective use of terminology. The “right wing” counter to it is “traditional conservative vaules” which does not slight them as theirs does us, it also makes us sound old, outdated, boring. It not only does not futher our narritive, it actually supports theirs. Horrible terminology. I could go on, but we lose every battle of terminology, they are far better at it, have a deeper understanding of the importance of it and use it nonstop in every instance to futher their narrative. We use THEIR terms more often than not, and we actually spread and legitimize their views by doing it.
Take for instance the “Civil War”, sounds like a board game you play with your uncle over tea. “War of Northern Aggression” while accurate, is too much of a mouth full and it makes it sound legitimate. “The War Between States” terrible, go back. Not only was it not that at all, it again makes it sound legitimate, thus legitimizing the outcome, so bad, never use it.
Diring my daily redpilling of the world to our plight (TheRougarou@Parler) I never ever use those terms. I always call it the Invasion and then prehaps reference the occupation. I always say invasion. Not war, not conflict, not rebellion, not hostilities, not time of strife, not anything but INVASION. Now, I am not saying that is a term in and of itself, what I am saying the terminology must reflect that it was an invasion, a betrayal, an act of aggression, a hostile act on a home, not a battlefield, I mean I could word clould it all day.
“Invasion” not only automatically furthers our narritive and sets the scene in the normies mind, paints yankees as invaders, us as defenders of our home, it puts them on the defense, gives us automatic moral authority, puts the burden on them, while giving us the compassion of victims… I mean it does a lot and I never fail to say it. Its a good term. Framing of events is key, narratives are a picture that rests inside of a frame. Another way to look at it is its the larger pill that all of the other concepts are encapsulated inside of, or think Russian nesting dolls. So if its all inside of “Civil War” then thats what all of the small dolls will resemble, its the frame, the big doll. Invasion should be the frame, it is after all the truth.
So you may be wondering what the hell any of that has to do with the article. Well, you sir you have stumbled onto a real thing, a large and very detrimental thing especially to Southerners and our culture. I have long noticed the same and see it everywhere and in lots of disscusions of things that to others may seem unconnected, but they are very connected to me, and by the concept you are pointing out. Its massive and has far reaching implications. It also lacks a term to encapsulate it, one that could be used to futher our narrative. Thats why I am talking about terminology, we have a chance to identify this concept, to flesh it out in a way that raises awareness of our suffering and could be used to advance our cause to a world wide audience. If we can relate the term to Dixie and our cultural genocide by referencing the yankee “sameness” which is part of yankee marxism, which is part of a worldwide problem. We could do it, relate it to Dixie, then encapsulate it and it would resonate to everyone else affected by it, futher our narrative of an oppressed Dixie longing to be free of bland yankee sameness. Good frame for it and one that serves us.
I will stop here, but man I could write a novel on this. In fact I had to delete paragraphs just to keep it this short, but only because its so very important. You can watch a lecture called “The Curse of Creativity” by Jordan Peterson to get a better feel for me and maybe why I am stressing a subject that to you may seem unrelated to your post, to me it very much is connected and I see how we can use what you have noticed to advance our narritive. Just listen to the lecture, its really good, and know that I am one of those people he is talking about and maybe forgive me for my seemingly rambling reply. Things are very connected to people like me and it tends to make me ramble. Asking me to stay on subject and keep it short, is like asking me to desribe a person by describing just their leg, I am a big picture person, Eurovision blandness are very much connected to Dixie cultural genocide from my vantage point. Just listen to the lecture for a better understanding than I could ever give if you would like.
Just know that you have stumbled onto something important and that is connceted to many things, we can use that as an avenue to then connect to others that are having the same experience, this “sameness” that yankees propagate and use that shared experience with them to advance our postion to them, and prehaps even passively gain some allies. We can have people use our term “yankee sameness” for a place holder to have others passively use our frame, like the left does to us so often. Its a dig at them and a buff to us, a decent term, but prehaps you could do better. We need only the proper terminology and the correct frame.
Thank you sir for taking the time to write this for us, if you can develop some good terminology for the phenomenon you have noticed then I would love to read a follow up. Again, thank you, great article.