Given the way things have gone in the Western world over the past few decades, one cannot help but think of the ancient Norse mythology and worldview as expressed in the Icelandic poem ‘Voluspá’ (The Prophecy of the Volva) from the 10th century and in the Icelandic ‘Edda’ by Snorri Sturluson from the 13th century.
According to the Old Norse worldview, the world is dominated by a constant struggle between order and chaos, and it ends with chaos – in the form of Ragnarök – prevailing. Most of the gods and all of humanity (with the exception of two people) perish. Odin is devoured by a wolf, and Thor is poisoned.
Ragnarök begins with the killing of Balder – the most beloved of the gods – and this heralds a three-year-long ‘Fimbulwinter’, which causes people to resort to violence against one another. Thereafter, disasters follow in rapid succession. As it says in ‘Völuspá’:
Brothers will turn against one another,
wage war,
nieces and nephews will
betray their kin;
evil is upon the earth,
debauchery so great,
a time of axes, a time of swords,
shields are cleaved,
a time of wind, a time of wolves,
before the world’s downfall;
the earth resounds,
the earth quakes;
no man then
will spare another.
…
The sun grows dark,
sinks into the sea of earth,
the bright stars
fade from the sky;
then steam roars
and a sea of flame,
the heath rises high
towards the sky itself.
But after the desolate earth has lain in darkness, it ultimately rises again in a new form, and humanity experiences a new beginning.
We recognise the chaos that has engulfed the world, and which is manifesting itself in country after country. France appears to have succumbed to Islam, as evidenced by the violent unrest of recent weeks, provoked by a reckless upper class that believed that unlimited Muslim immigration would secure its eternal power. France is now experiencing widespread fires in schools, churches, synagogues and police stations, and the authorities are responding by persecuting those who write the truth. The author Michel Houellebecq thus faces a year in prison for warning against Islamisation. Ekstra Bladet calls him a ‘scandalous author’.
The EU is trying by every means to give the impression that Europe is in a state of normality, and apparently continues to claim that the mass influx from the Third World has been an unqualified enrichment that in no way challenges society’s security and social cohesion, whilst the truth is that those responsible for the population replacement should be brought before a court.
Until recently, the US stood as a bulwark against social breakdown. That is no longer the case. The Democrats have seized power in Congress, and instead of working towards political reforms for the good of the people, the vengeful Democrats have announced that they will ‘investigate’ and prosecute the entire Trump administration, his family and his associates. Anyone who has bought a MAGA cap must now fear for their future. So must the Jews. Members of a far-left group in Philadelphia have announced that they will cycle around the city to single out ‘Zionist’ businesses, whose owners are described as vile vermin. One is reminded of the German Nazis, who, after Hitler’s rise to power, campaigned under the slogan ‘Don’t buy from the Jews’. In the US, it is no longer about ‘Gaza’ or Israel, but about unabashed anti-Semitism.
After decades of indoctrination at universities, professors can take satisfaction in having spread anti-Western and anti-American hatred amongst students.
According to a recent opinion poll, more than one in five students believe that the US deserved the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. Almost half would prefer to live under socialism (42 per cent, compared with just 28 per cent who prefer capitalism), and 38 per cent state that ‘Palestine’ is a better American ally than Israel, which is supported by only 25 per cent. The Gaza propaganda has been an overwhelming success, and anti-Semitism is at an all-time high.
One in two students believes that the US is irredeemably mired in ‘white supremacy’. The country is therefore not worth backing, and Marxists and Islamic holy warriors can look forward to a bright future.
Since the Second World War, the Western world has scarcely witnessed such a massive rejection of the former prevailing order and such a craving for chaos.
This radical rejection of the old society has, of course, not arisen of its own accord. Financial magnates and hostile foreign powers such as China are pulling the strings and funding the far-left and Islamist excesses, and the supporters of the old society have no answer.
As we saw, the world was reborn after Ragnarok. One may doubt that the same will happen once the forces of chaos have finished destroying the West.
