A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

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A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Volker Zorn » Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:09 am

Author's note: I first posted this on Stormfront a while back, both in my blog there and in a main discussion forum, where it generated some interest.

In light of the recent discussion of the role of Cosmotheism in a revived National Alliance, Dr. Pierce's comments in the third-to-the-last paragraph are especially interesting and relevant.


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Some Background: I was a member of the National Headquarters staff of the National Socialist White Peoples Party/NEW ORDER in Arlington, Virginia, from 1977 through 1983. I left the staff on January 1, 1984, partly for personal reasons. I found myself at loose ends, both politically and financially. In the spring of that year, Dr. William L. Pierce of the National Alliance contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in working on a catalog for National Vanguard Books. Up to that point, NVB had no catalog, just a two-sided sheet of paper listing the titles they handled.

I agreed, and Dr. Pierce hired me to write, photograph and produce the first NVB catalog. The NA office at that time was in Crystal City, just a short drive from the NSWPP headquarters. Dr. Pierce paid me a generous amount for my effort. Working conditions were pleasant. One evening, after a long day's work, he invited me to join him for dinner at a local restaurant.

Our Conversation: We had a wide-ranging discussion that evening. Dr. Pierce told me that he was working on two new books. The first was Hunter, a work of fiction, that, like his earlier Turner Diaries, allowed him to present his ideas in the form of an action novel. The second book he was working on was a history of the White race, Who We Are, which was based on a series of articles he had written for the National Vanguard tabloid newspaper.

This led to a discussion of White evolution. We both agreed that the White race had gotten off its upward evolutionary track, and had devolved, rather than evolved in recent centuries. I mentioned a recent communication from Dr. Peter H. Peel. Peel, whose doctorate was in history. He was a British National-Socialist who had taken up permanent residence in the US, and he was both a member of the NA and a supporter of Matt Koehl's NSWPP/NEW ORDER. In his letter, Peel had expressed the conviction that the White race had been devolving since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The labor-saving devices introduced at that time had all but undone the evolutionary advances made by the White race since the Wuerm glaciation, in his opinion.

I told Dr. Pierce that I thought Peel was mistaken, and that I agreed with Friederich Nietzsche, who wrote that the evolutionary decline had begun with the Neolithic Revolution, roughly 10,000 years ago.

(Digression: for those unfamiliar with prehistory, there is a period commonly known as the "Stone Age." This was when our ancestors had not yet learned how to work metal, and used stone instead for tools and weapons. Scholars divide the Stone Age into three sub-ages:
  • The Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, from 35,000 to 15,000 years ago;
    The Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age, from 15,000 to 10,000 y.a.; and
    The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, beginning 10,000 y.a.)
It was not the refinement in the design and production of stone tools, I commented to Dr. Pierce, which caused White devolution, but rather accompanying developments: the beginnings of agriculture, the domestication of farm animals, and above all, settled, permanent cities. Prior to urbanization and agriculture, our ancestors had lived in nomadic hunter-gather bands of 200 or less individuals. Life was physically difficult, so that only the most vigorous and healthy people survived: evolution advanced by way of natural selection. At the same time, however, everyone knew everyone else in their band, and the dominant social values were trust, honesty, communal effort and kinship.

With the beginning of urbanization, all of that changed. People then lived in huge settlements, in which everyone did not know everyone else. Kinsmen were still treated decently, but strangers were fair game for exploitation. Deceit replaced honesty and trust, and individual advancement and ambition replaced communal effort. Because city life was easier than hunter-gather nomadism, people with weaknesses found it easier to survive and reproduce. A merchant class arose, and those who were sly and successful in accumulating wealth found that they had a survival advantage over those who were physically robust and whose personalities were straightforward -- artificial selection began to squeeze out natural selection.

Dr. Pierce agreed with me up to a point. Prior to the Neolithic Revolution, the White Man had to be the master of many survival skills, he noted. With urbanization, someone could survive by being a specialist -- that is, good at only one thing. Rather than a specialist, our hunter-gatherer ancestor was "a jack of all trades, master of none," in Pierce's exact words. Thus the multifaceted personal strengths of our ancestors became narrowed down.

But Dr. Pierce's assessment of when the evolutionary decline began was even more radical than that of Nietzsche. Dr. Pierce felt that the high point of White evolution had been reached in the Paleolithic era, and had begun to decline already with the advent of the Mesolithic (15,000 y.a.). At that time, the advances made in tool-making made it easier for the less-fit members of a hunter-gather band to survive and hence propagate. Further, Dr. Pierce said, the Mesolithic period also saw the domestication of the dog from the Asiatic red wolf. Dogs aided in hunting, which also made it easier for second-rate humans to survive.

I replied that whoever was right -- Pierce, Nietzsche or Peel -- we were in a bind. It was not possible to return to a way of life prior to the Neolithic or Mesolithic periods, or even back to before the Industrial Revolution.

"How are we to get White evolution back on track?" I asked him.

A key element in restoring the upward progress of our Race, he answered, was eugenics, both positive and negative -- and especially racial eugenics. (Positive eugenics consists of encouraging the reproduction of people with desirable traits, while negative eugenics means discouraging or even preventing the propagation of those with undesirable characteristics.)

I replied that as a National-Socialist, I, of course, supported eugenics. But at the same time, I had a concern, namely that eugenic measures were themselves a form of artificial selection, rather than natural selection.

Dr. Pierce thought for second, and told me that I was right, in a sense, that, eugenics were a form of artificial selection. It would be more correct, however, to say that eugenics were a sub-set of artificial selection called scientific selection. And, moreover, what he had in mind could more precisely be called directed evolution.

I mentioned Nietzsche's Superman as the target in an evolutionary vector to be pursued. Dr. Pierce replied that while his works are certainly inspirational, Nietzsche's Superman was an ambiguous and largely poetic concept, and that he had some much more concrete in mind.

It would be the task of a National Alliance government to administer the biological eugenic measures needed to restore the White Man to physical and racial health. The goal would be that each new generation would stand on a higher racial and evolutionary level than the preceding generation. At the same time, the Cosmotheist Church would be responsible for the spiritual evolution of the population. By this, he explained, he meant that it would see to it that the greater racial community would hold fast to healthy spiritual values, and that personal characteristics that were desirable would extolled. Courage, honesty, and self-sacrifice, for example, would be the norm. Those individuals who were consistently unable to live up to these values would be relegated to the bottom of the eugenic hierarchy.

Our conversation then drifted off into different areas. It was clear to me that the subject of getting our Race back on track regarding its upward development was of crucial importance to Dr. Pierce. Although he had given the matter considerable serious thought, there were still things he was working out in his mind.

At the end of the evening, I told him that he had given me much to think about. He thanked me for my questions, comments and feedback, and we both agreed to continued our discussion concerning White evolution at a future date -- which, sadly, we never did.

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Cosmotheist » Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:41 am

VZ wrote:

It would be the task of a National Alliance government to administer the biological eugenic measures needed to restore the White Man to physical and racial health. The goal would be that each new generation would stand on a higher racial and evolutionary level than the preceding generation. At the same time, the Cosmotheist Church would be responsible for the spiritual evolution of the population. By this, he explained, he meant that it would see to it that the greater racial community would hold fast to healthy spiritual values, and that personal characteristics that were desirable would extolled. Courage, honesty, and self-sacrifice, for example, would be the norm. Those individuals who were consistently unable to live up to these values would be relegated to the bottom of the eugenic hierarchy.

Indeed. That is Our Cause, as embodied in COSMOTHEISM, as in The Path, On Living Things, and On Society,
and in the Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Cosmotheist Community Church. The spiritual side
is what is fundamental and is what is most essential and it is the guide for all of the goals and values for every-
thing that the National Alliance was organized to do and is the required Whole Cosmotheist Truth that's within
our Affirmation.

Best regards,
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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Michael Olanich » Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:11 am

Thank you for sharing that, Volker Zorn. It was intriguing to say the least.

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Will Williams » Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:29 pm

Bump! Good, deep conversation with Dr. Pierce on several topics.
VZ wrote:
It would be the task of a National Alliance government to administer the biological eugenic measures needed to restore the White Man to physical and racial health. The goal would be that each new generation would stand on a higher racial and evolutionary level than the preceding generation. At the same time, the Cosmotheist Church would be responsible for the spiritual evolution of the population. By this, he explained, he meant that it would see to it that the greater racial community would hold fast to healthy spiritual values, and that personal characteristics that were desirable would extolled. Courage, honesty, and self-sacrifice, for example, would be the norm. Those individuals who were consistently unable to live up to these values would be relegated to the bottom of the eugenic hierarchy.
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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Wade Hampton III » Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:12 am

Volker Zorn wrote: In light of the recent discussion of the role of Cosmotheism in a revived National Alliance, Dr. Pierce's comments in the third-to-the-last paragraph are especially interesting and relevant
An excellent story! I knew nothing of WLP or National Socialism until I came across
a pirated copy of 'Who Rules America," and immediately joined. I got a letter back
from WLP wherein I said I would like to read at least fifty or so of the books on the
mailing list and would like to meet him in person, once I had a working knowledge
of what was going on in the world around me. The meeting never occurred because
as you know with the death of WLP, the NA began to be Christianized and slowly
came to realize that the dream died with the man. At least for many years afterward
anyway...and today is another day.

WLP cannot be replaced, but I admire the courage and conviction of those who
have stepped into the void and carry forward what this giant of a man set out to do.
After all, electricity and flight did not die with Edison and the Wright Brothers!

As a side topic and simple curiosity, does anyone know whatever happened to Evelyn
Hill?

:?:

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Evolving Being » Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:25 pm

Wade Hampton III wrote:
Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:12 am
Volker Zorn wrote: In light of the recent discussion of the role of Cosmotheism in a revived National Alliance, Dr. Pierce's comments in the third-to-the-last paragraph are especially interesting and relevant
WLP cannot be replaced, but I admire the courage and conviction of those who
have stepped into the void and carry forward what this giant of a man set out to do.
After all, electricity and flight did not die with Edison and the Wright Brothers!
I must say though electricity and flight did in the long term cause damage by enabling mass immigration to White countries. Therefore, devolving the White race even more, especially by declining birth rates, as non-Europeans move in and reproduce at rates multiple to White people. So imo and should be to every European descent person who cares about our posterity; WLP while not as known as the other two is overall to a higher standard. He could have ignored the problems of the multiculturalism he saw as a Professor in Physics and instead been a pioneer inventing or discovering something more profound in science than Edison or the Wrights even, especially considered as such by the masses and had more “fame” in that sense, but chose the path that was right, which in the long term will save this planet from literally dying along with all the life forms. Obviously, the masses can’t think in these terms though.

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Jim Mathias » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:34 pm

Evolving Being wrote:
Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:25 pm
Wade Hampton III wrote:
Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:12 am
Volker Zorn wrote: In light of the recent discussion of the role of Cosmotheism in a revived National Alliance, Dr. Pierce's comments in the third-to-the-last paragraph are especially interesting and relevant
WLP cannot be replaced, but I admire the courage and conviction of those who
have stepped into the void and carry forward what this giant of a man set out to do.
After all, electricity and flight did not die with Edison and the Wright Brothers!
I must say though electricity and flight did in the long term cause damage by enabling mass immigration to White countries. Therefore, devolving the White race even more, especially by declining birth rates, as non-Europeans move in and reproduce at rates multiple to White people. So imo and should be to every European descent person who cares about our posterity; WLP while not as known as the other two is overall to a higher standard. He could have ignored the problems of the multiculturalism he saw as a Professor in Physics and instead been a pioneer inventing or discovering something more profound in science than Edison or the Wrights even, especially considered as such by the masses and had more “fame” in that sense, but chose the path that was right, which in the long term will save this planet from literally dying along with all the life forms. Obviously, the masses can’t think in these terms though.
The masses can think in terms of what authority figures (our own, or alien) present to them. We can't worry about what the masses think at this time, only what the select few who are receptive to our message and incorporate it into their lives are thinking. We have a purpose, with goals behind them, to build a consensus around. To attract other Whites who are sensitive to Our Cause and to fit them into our developing community as a core group that can develop the tools needed to seize our future is what we're engaged in presently.

About electricity, flight, and other White discoveries, they're not culpable in and of themselves for the situation we Whites are in. Only we are for the failure to use our time and talents for ensuring these things aren't put to use against us---but this is talking of the past. The future is what we can mold to our liking, keeping in mind mistakes of the past so as not to repeat them.
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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Evolving Being » Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:53 am

Jim Mathias wrote:
Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:34 pm
Evolving Being wrote:
Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:25 pm
Wade Hampton III wrote:
Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:12 am
Volker Zorn wrote: In light of the recent discussion of the role of Cosmotheism in a revived National Alliance, Dr. Pierce's comments in the third-to-the-last paragraph are especially interesting and relevant
WLP cannot be replaced, but I admire the courage and conviction of those who
have stepped into the void and carry forward what this giant of a man set out to do.
After all, electricity and flight did not die with Edison and the Wright Brothers!
I must say though electricity and flight did in the long term cause damage by enabling mass immigration to White countries. Therefore, devolving the White race even more, especially by declining birth rates, as non-Europeans move in and reproduce at rates multiple to White people. So imo and should be to every European descent person who cares about our posterity; WLP while not as known as the other two is overall to a higher standard. He could have ignored the problems of the multiculturalism he saw as a Professor in Physics and instead been a pioneer inventing or discovering something more profound in science than Edison or the Wrights even, especially considered as such by the masses and had more “fame” in that sense, but chose the path that was right, which in the long term will save this planet from literally dying along with all the life forms. Obviously, the masses can’t think in these terms though.
The masses can think in terms of what authority figures (our own, or alien) present to them. We can't worry about what the masses think at this time, only what the select few who are receptive to our message and incorporate it into their lives are thinking. We have a purpose, with goals behind them, to build a consensus around. To attract other Whites who are sensitive to Our Cause and to fit them into our developing community as a core group that can develop the tools needed to seize our future is what we're engaged in presently.

About electricity, flight, and other White discoveries, they're not culpable in and of themselves for the situation we Whites are in. Only we are for the failure to use our time and talents for ensuring these things aren't put to use against us---but this is talking of the past. The future is what we can mold to our liking, keeping in mind mistakes of the past so as not to repeat them.
Yes, this is all completely true...

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Thomas Cole » Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:10 pm

An excellent and interesting problem you guys are discussing here - keep going, I hope to gain some enlightenment. I myself have been exploring the idea of devolution for a while. I came to this from reading Evola's works.
The relationship between technological progress and the decline in the quality of the inventive population seems to be something that is plays a major role in the downfall of almost every civilization. However the simple explanation that the reduction of stress of immediate survival through technological progress always and necessarily leads to a general decline in the overall "fitness" is unsatisfactory. If that co-relation would be entirely correct, than we would never have been able to create the super civilizations we have now. Instead we would have remained in a quasi pre-historical state (intellectually and physically) like the majority of the Black population has to this day. In contrary seem the invention of tools and the mastery of our natural surroundings to have accelerated the creation of beforementioned super civilizations.
Yet there seems to be some sort of tipping point when the technological progress ceases to mitigate the loss of quality of the stock. That point marks the time, when a civilization starts its inevitable decline. That point also marks the point, when a civilization gets to weak to fight off ideas and ideologies that further lead to its demise. It's almost like it wants to die, because it's so tired of life - now reached Spengler.
To bad Pierce is not with us anymore to enlighten us. He truly was a great thinker and prophet.

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Re: A Conversation I Had with Dr. Pierce on White Evolution

Post by Volker Zorn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 12:16 am

The problem isn't science or technology; the problem is whose hands control science and technology.

Of this you can be sure: whatever scientific advances and discoveries are made at the present time will either be screwed up or put to anti-White uses.

Right now, eugenics is derided and even criminalized in Aryan lands. Nonetheless, I have no doubt that, even as a I type this, a team of Jewish scientists is laboring away feverishly in a secret laboratory under the Negev Desert to a create a genetic super-Jew to unleash on the world when they feel the time is right.

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