BY SEAN WALSH
Like many people, possibly even the majority, I don’t have much time for Nazis. Norm MacDonald said of Hitler that he “didn’t really care for him at all”. I see no reason to disagree with this. There might have been some early years comedic opportunities but these had pretty much run dry by about 1933 and now seem very tired, very “been there, done that, bought the t-shirt” (quite literally in certain parts of south London).
But it’s good to be vigilant about these things, and nobody wants to live next to a Nazi compound. I think that the Nazi diaspora is not restricted to South America or Scotland, and that here in the West Country we have reasons to be concerned.
In plain sight.
I am reluctant to dox myself. I’ll just say that this swastika inspired shaped community of flats isn’t too far from where I live. In case you think I’ve relapsed, this has been reported in the national press.
Some background…
Devizes is a small and quirky market town in Wiltshire, situated close to Salisbury Plain, and not far from Stonehenge. We have hauntings, a castle, a well known system of canal locks, a labyrinth of secret tunnels, food markets, documented incidents of alien/demonic interaction, a Wetherspoons, and the usual casual pagan occultism. Do we have a Nazi problem as an added layer of eccentric multiculturalism? I rather think we do.
We know that the Nazis had a charming practice of architectural signatory. so it shouldn’t be surprising that they would announce themselves in this way. They were/are also adept in the ways of pettifogging red tape, and quite capable of holding their own in a dust up with local government building regulations which would have been counter-creative even when the structure was at the planning stage many decades ago. So kudos (or German equivalent) for that.
Surveillance reports on the residents of that building, compiled over several years, also give cause for concern. These people keep to themselves, speak rudimentary English, come and go at strange hours, start fires, do not work, and exist solely for procreation and the initiation of a fresh cycle of pretty much the same. They are, if you like, what the left call “net contributors”, and therefore to be avoided at all costs.
A word about cars and the parking thereof. Since it became harder, unless you’re a criminal, to get a gun, cars have become a symbol of new forms of aggression, and creative parking a new type of swagger. And, perhaps, any suppressed impulse towards authoritarianism will be expressed in a willingness to stick a vehicle where it was most definitely not intended to be: communal play areas, pavements, patches of greenery etc.
If (and I say no more than that) this is also what the anthropologists call an indicator of totalitarian thinking then certain groups of young men in Devizes have a prima facie case to answer.
A caveat. The Nazis in Devizes, if so they be, have deviated from the Aryan ideal in significant ways – whether this is a falsification of the underpinning eugenicist metaphysics or just simple disguise, I am not yet in a position to say.
There is no evidence of any liking for Wagner. If there is a fondness for literature then that’s kept under wraps. Devizes Nazis, if that’s what these people are, do not walk around with a copy of Beyond Good and Evil or Origin of Species tucked under an arm. Whether Nazi culture, like culture generally, has also suffered from the post-modernist corruption or whether this is the usual repudiation of heritage is, again, not for me to speculate about.
So what to do about it? Perhaps the Devizes Nazis, if that’s what we’re dealing with, are as entitled to protection as all other minority groups. We know from the whole Islam business that the hate laws are there now to protect ideologies as much as anything else and say what you want about Nazis they were pretty ideological. They were/are almost fanatical about it in fact.
I guess that being a Catholic supernaturalist and therefore a moral objectivist I at least have a deposit of faith and a tradition of teaching which allows me, without blushing, to call these people out. The relativists, utilitarians, and multiculturalists (for whom there is only in fact one culture, of course, that of rigorously applied national suicide) have no such luxury.
How ironic that the Nazis in Devizes, if we have any, are protected at least theoretically, by the gratuitous extension of public order legislation to areas of private opinion about which the state should not really have any say. Unless that state is a fascist one of course.