We are dead; our society is adrift! Between woke, gay pride, and feminism—we’re finished! Anything would be better!
But are we really sure that’s the case?
I predicted twenty-four years ago that, as the social fabric unraveled, minority lobbies would gain influence. Among them, those with a specific cause (LGBT, Jews, Muslims, clergy, lodges, “Catholic-Communists”) would try to impose their culture from above. I even gave the specific example of gay activists who were just getting started. A kind of Gramscism applied with Stalinist methods.
Above and below the table
The Craxi-era minister De Michelis once shrewdly remarked that there is a reality above the table and one below it—and the latter is usually the more important.
This dissociation is political as well. Minorities, cloistered inside institutions now out of step with reality, talk only to themselves and try to impose their own book on everyone—whatever that book may be. Political correctness which, at this rate, will soon morph into “the politically correct woman.”
But do these dogmas, propped up by increasingly narrow and even ridiculous laws, truly take hold?
It hardly seems so.
The woke agenda
has failed miserably. Disney, Netflix, and all those who embraced it have backtracked after box-office disasters. American corporations have cut positions created to support its policies: the market does not forgive, and the general mood toward woke is now crystal clear.
As for gay culture
which for many has become almost an obsession—perhaps proof of an attraction transformed into repulsion—what impact has it really had on European society? Certainly a strong one, especially within the liberal-communist dictatorship of “gender,” which is still far from establishing itself. And though it exploits homosexuals as a foothold, its subversive roots reach much further back.
On the societal impact, let the numbers speak
From 2016 (when civil unions were introduced) to 2023, Italy celebrated 21,336 such unions. In the first eight months of 2024, about 2,960 were recorded—a 2.1% drop compared to the same period in 2023. In the same timeframe, there were 1,317,092 traditional marriages (plus about 1.8 million cohabiting heterosexual couples).
In France, since 1999 (when PACS were introduced), there have been 204,061 such partnerships (not exclusively between homosexuals, since they also include heterosexual couples who benefited from legalized cohabitation). In the same period, there were 5,263,585 marriages.
If civil unions had not been legalized, same-sex couples would simply have lived together. In practice, nothing really changed.
Whatever one thinks of the dominant culture of bourgeois elites who survived the last wave of “radical chic” rights, it is like oil on water: it doesn’t sink in. There’s no need to panic—it will soon fade away. It will leave traces, yes, but not all negative. That’s how history has always worked, and it will repeat itself.
If not for the serious problem of falling birthrates and demographics, there would be no reason for pessimism about the future, because Europe’s dominant culture cannot help but change. Its contradictions at the top are already plain to see, starting with the new warmongering push for rearmament.
The problem is that too many only look above the table
and get swept away by the slogans of theatrical politics and phony international rivalries, believing everything is as they imagine or fear.
As a result, some have ended up opposing anything to this decadent society—without even knowing the nature of what they are opposing.
I’m talking about mafias, murders, suicides, drugs, abortions, child trafficking, legal and social rights. And even, for those obsessed with gay pride, homosexuality itself.
No one considers that in countries where it is outlawed (most recently Burkina Faso), this is precisely because it is a widespread practice—laws address broad realities, not the petals of daisies.
So what is actually being paraded in opposition—not just to Europe’s ruling elites, but to Europe itself, written off as lost and enslaved to what minority elites wanted it to become (or rather, had wanted, since now I see them scrambling after us)?
The whole so-called “Anti-West.” Which often gets conflated with the BRICS—even though BRICS are not anti-Western as a whole, nor even mostly so, aside from a few platitudes meant to soothe the masses.
Among them, yes, there are members who genuinely oppose the North. But not many: the more serious ones want to lead it, not destroy it.
These frustrated anti-Westerners
share the same cultural references as the American way of life, but want to “win a championship” of their own one day. Yet their social, cultural, and existential conditions are worse—often far worse—than ours. Their customs too, even if they sweep the dust under the rug, sometimes only to appease Islam, which has a dominant presence in their societies (just look at the numbers in Moscow).
By repeating that everything here is lost, and mistaking our nations for the impotent barking of a worn-out ruling class, people have blinded themselves. To the point of holding up as virtuous models actual monstrosities—open-air prisons.
The list is endless, but here are a few examples:
- Russia: where—note, antivaxxers—mRNA vaccines have been mandatory for months, alongside ideological laws criminalizing any ethnic discrimination, any questioning of the Jewish cause, and any historical commentary—even military—considered favorable to the Axis. Recently, laws have been enacted banning online searches of undesirable historical topics, mandating a spy messenger app on every phone. This had once been attempted by Clinton in the U.S. but was struck down by the courts. The Russian government may now freeze or seize any bank account without notice, and ban the holder from opening another. To buy a SIM card, you must provide a video recording and show your passport—even to purchase a lighter.
- China: has the Lao-gai, concentration camps where death row inmates are forced into labor. Execution takes place only when their organs are a profitable match for a buyer. Healthcare is mixed: many procedures are paid out of pocket, as the state covers no more than 60% of costs. Since some procedures, especially cardiac surgery, cost around €30,000, the rich survive while the poor die. And there is the social credit system: depending on the “obedience points” accumulated, one enjoys greater or fewer freedoms of movement and emigration.
- North Korea: one cannot leave one’s municipality—even for a short trip—without party permission.
- Iran: people are hanged for the slightest offense, and political debate is nonexistent—without even mentioning women’s rights.
- Venezuela: a police regime that has managed to go bankrupt despite vast oil reserves, driving seven million citizens—one quarter of its population!—to flee in just a few years.
Is it really this catalogue of horrors
that we want to hold up in opposition—not just to today’s dominant culture, but to our society as a whole and to our centuries-old achievements? Or should we instead look inward, correcting ourselves and avoiding the trap of waving banners against what we see as an evil, when what we hold up as an alternative is without question infinitely worse?
If we fall into that trap, we must realize it is the only way to breathe new life into woke, which would save itself merely by comparison with the supposed alternative. Keep that in mind!
But if we root ourselves as national revolutionaries, given the way things are going, then—echoing the Beatles—we can well say: we can woke it out!
