Know Thy Massacre

Anders Breivik is not a terrorist. Terrorists use violence and the threat of violence to influence the behavior of other people. The looming fear of terrorist attacks make people afraid, and encourages stupid government officials to become increasingly tyrannical in the name of protecting the people. The effectiveness of a terrorist action relies upon a people's response to it- sadly, America has yet to figure this out.

Breivik did something quite different; he used violence to murder a significant chunk of Norway's future elite. There is no continuing threat from Breivik- he seemed to be working alone, and if he does have accomplices, one has every reason to assume their primary targets will continue to be the elite. Indeed, at first glance one would suspect that Breivik's action will lead people to abandon political position similar to his own.

But a few more glances, and a bit of thought, leads one to wonder, has Norway's elite been weakened? The post-communist revolutionary mindset (even among Christians, sadly) puts a very heavy weight on 'conversion.' No one seems to notice how unlikely it is for the proletariat to be remotely Marxist, or for that matter, for a person raised up in one of the more mainstream religions to convert to another. If you want to add to your number, to spread your way of life, have babies- the stats just don't support forgoing children for the sake of spreading any sort of message.

So, Breivik's brutality may ultimately lead to what he wants. The left loves contraception, abortion, childless women with professional careers, and Breivik has just taken a significant number of a generation out of the gene pool. One can reasonably extrapolate this across a few generations to a point where there simply won't be enough elites for them to control the country any more. Meanwhile, the conditions on the street, which formed Breivik's mindset are still in existence, and the more fecund lower classes tend to be instinctively reactionary.

It would be well to know your enemy, especially, as it happens, if you are an elite. Breivik's actions are evil, but not crazy or irrational; he figured out a means that may very well lead to the ends he wants. It may also be worth noting there were likely a lot of other wants he had before wedding himself to an imaginary abstraction of a future Norway. Much more mundane wants, like marriage, career, children, etc... The kind of wants largely destroyed by leftist policy. The kind of wants, which, if they are met within a society, secure a man's support and loyalty to that society. The ultimate failure of the left is their complete disrespect for the psyche of man.