A new book by Nikola Bijeliti is a "must read"!!!!

[Erik T. White]

This is a new White Nationalist novel by Nikola Bijeliti:

The Power of Art, Fashion, and Culture Kindle Edition
by Nikola Bijeliti (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Art-Fas...ikola+bijeliti

It's one that I personally enjoy reading over and over. It's fast paced enough to hold the reader's attention: however, one reading just won't do the novel justice. It has to be reread to grasp some things on which the White Nationalist reader will need to pause and reflect on possible events in his or her own life which one may find in the book. Reading about the Greek playwright Aristophanes brought back an experience to me that Ralph Vaughn Williams wrote some music to the play "The Wasps" by the Greek author, which I performed as an orchestral musician long ago. I personally feel that all White Nationalists will be similarly affected. IMO, you just don't know what you will be missing if you miss reading this newest book by this prolific White Nationalist author, who is also a fine poster here on VNN.

It's now also available in paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1791609554/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

[Nikola Bijeliti]

I have a new book out, The Power of Art, Fashion, and Culture. Here is a description of the book:

How does art, including movies, music, and fashion, influence the culture, and how can the power of the state be used to ensure that art is a positive and not a negative influence on the culture? In this novel, Thornton Nash, the Propaganda Minister of the newly independent country of Solutria, consults with the best minds in the country to devise a plan to make the population of Solutria as refined as possible. But, not content to rely on ideology, he uses statistical testing to assure that his plan is working as intended.

This book is the central book in the series and the most important one. It is about twice the length of the other books in the series. It lays down some important principles for running a White nation-state. The focus of the book is on the use of propaganda in shaping the culture, with an emphasis on the promotion of breastfeeding and on increasing the refinement of the population. If you only read one book in the series, this is the one to read. It also makes an excellent last-minute Christmas present.

This book resolves the threat presented in the previous book in the series, The Cosmic Identity. In that book, Uruguay embarks on a eugenics program to produce a superior race by mixing the existing races. As they pursue a policy of expansion by conquering indigenous tribes, they seek Whites to mix with them to produce the Cosmic Race. They produce propaganda aimed at Solutria enticing people to defect to Uruguay by claiming that Solutria is prudish, and that Uruguay has more sexual freedom. In the present novel, Thornton Nash counters the threat by embarking on a program to make Solutreans more refined.

[Stronza]

I looked inside the book The Power of Art, Fashion and Culture by Nikola B. I seem unable to decide how to interpret the section on Greeks/pederasty/homosexuality, etc. Is this merely a history of reality, i.e., how the Greeks (supposedly) thought and behaved? Or is it making excuses for them because they were white?

[Nikola Bijeliti]

Originally Posted by Stronza

I looked inside the book The Power of Art, Fashion and Culture by Nikola B. I seem unable to decide how to interpret the section on Greeks/pederasty/homosexuality, etc. Is this merely a history of reality, i.e., how the Greeks (supposedly) thought and behaved? Or is it making excuses for them because they were white?

That section is there for a couple of reasons. The story revolves around the efforts of the Propaganda Minister Thornton Nash to make the people of Solutria more refined. One of the ways he does this is by promoting nude swimming and gym class for children in elementary and middle school. I don't know how many of the younger people know this, but, when I was a kid, swimming class was conducted entirely in the nude, and it was considered completely wholesome.

In the story, the purpose of nude swimming and gym class is to promote positive body images, so that children will not grow up believing their bodies to be dirty. This, in turn, will increase their level of refinement. So there is a discussin on the history of nude atheletics. The ancient Greeks had nude atheletics, but it was for a different reason. The reason was to promote bonding among young men. In fact, the word "gymnasium" in Greek means "nude place," because men exercised in the nude. In modern times, nude swimming class was introduced because the use of bathing suits was clogging up the pool fliters.

The second reason that pederasty is discussed is that the the subject of homosexuality is discussed, along with its possible causes and how to prevent or mitigate it. So the characters discuss pederasty in that context, to see how it relates to modern homosexuaity. It's a complex subject, and the short section in the book on it probably doesn't do it justice. In sort, pederasty was different from homosexuality, and ancient homosexuality was a corruption of pederasty, which had a beign purpose.

One of the major reasons for the campaign to promote refinement in the novel is because the people of Solutria are being subject to a propaganda campaign by a mixed-race country to emmigrate there and race-mix, and the propaganda includes crude sexual images. The refinement campaign is an attempt to make the people immune to that.

If you would like to discuss ancient pederasty further, go ahead and post a thread about it, and we can discuss it at length. It i a very complex subject that is only touched on in this novel.

[Stronza]

OK. Thanks for your well written reply. I see your point.

However, being forcibly kept away from women for 30 years is not in and of itself a motivation to take part in unnatural practices. The reality is that only some men will respond to their uncontrollable desires in such fashion. Others would kill themselves first. Some others will just, you know, use their hand. Today, jailing men all together doesn't result in all of them wanting to have "sex" with other men. There has to be some pathology there in the first place. Sure, having young boys bathe and swim together naked is a good idea. But it sure isn't the whole picture by a long shot.

[Nikola Bijeliti]

Pederasty was an important institution in Ancient Greece in which a young man was mentored by a slightly older man in the practice of virtue. Most people today equate pederasty with homosexuality, but they were not the same. Homosexual acts were actually forbidden to pederasts, as the following two quotations from Plato demonstrate:

[T]he lover may kiss and pass the time with and touch the beloved as a father would a son, for honorable ends, if he persuade him. But otherwise he must so associate with the objects of his care that there should never be any suspicion of anything further, on penalty of being stigmatized for want of taste and true musical culture.

[W]e must not forget that this pleasure is held to have been granted by nature to male and female when conjoined for the work of procreation; the crime of male with male, or female with female, is an outrage on nature and a capital surrender to lust of pleasure.

However, it is clear that some pederasts practiced homosexuality; otherwise, Plato and others would have had no reason to denounce it. It was probably only a small percentage. There are a certain percentage of men who are not homosexual by nature but who, in an institutional setting, will commit homosexual acts.

I think an analogy can be made with the Catholic church. The Catholic Church, along with its institution of celibacy for priests, was not created for the purpose of child molestation, although many people associate the Catholic church with child molestation. It is possible that, in the future, some people may use the word "Catholic" as a synonym for child molester, just as today some use the word "pederast" as a synonym for child molester, but neither pederasty nor Catholicism originated for that purpose.