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Nike, and the woke Cultural Purge of St George.
When a new regime comes to power, particularly through conquest or revolution, it often seeks to reshape the cultural landscape of the country to reflect its own values, ideologies, and narratives. This process, often referred to as a cultural purge, involves the deliberate removal or marginalisation of symbols, monuments, and practices associated with the previous regime.
What am I talking about, you may be wondering? It’s this latest episode with the sports clothing manufacturer Nike making its own version of the English flag (the cross of St George) to go on the back of the new England 2024 National Team kits, sparking outrage among patriotic fans, and rightly so! Nike is reported in the press as being a woke firm, that it has progressive values and from this we can deduce that it has a significant population of Anglophobes amongst its staff and this like other woke projects is just the most recent attempt by people behind the scenes, the type of people who like influence as opposed to direct authority, to water down and otherwise diminish the history and symbolism of England.
I’m a Welshman through and through, but nevertheless feel aggrieved on behalf of Englishmen everywhere. This is wrong and it must be stopped in its tracks. The national flag of England is not a company logo that can be changed at will and for purposes of marketing. It’s the national symbol of a civilisation that’s over a thousand years in the making. The modern world as we know it is a largely an English invention. Today’s world would not be possible without England and all of the many good things that she gave to the world. The English flag represents so many good things that this latest outrage by Nike is a bit like taking a rainbow flag in pride season and rebranding it to be all black and with Arabic writing on it, like the Isis flag perhaps! It’s a cheap and nasty form of corporate virtue signalling, that presumably they hope will help Nike’s ESG rating, by signalling to everyone else in the globalist club that they are the right kind of people to do business with, the gold people of Plato’s republic, fit to lead, and not the bronze people that make up the masses. It’s misjudged however, because we ordinary folk with bronze in our souls are the ones that they are relying upon to buy their produce. No wonder there’s calls to boycott Nike, to give them some of the Bud-light treatment and send their share price to zero.
What’s really interesting about this event, is that the people who work in these companies never learn. They didn’t learn anything from Netflix’s ‘Cuties,’ and neither did they learn anything from the Gillette (the best a man can be) fiasco, nor did they learn anything from the recent bud-light debacle. If they don’t care about their stock price, then neither should we!
It’s a common hallmark of people possessed by an ideology that the politics comes first, being more important than the need to make money. This is how you know you are dealing with an ideologue; the agenda is all they care about, everything that they have some control or influence over is crowbarred into serving the ideology, making it a vehicle for their politics. This rebranding of the Cross of St George is globalist form of entryism. If we allow this, more abuses will follow.
The Psychology of Symbolism
Psychologically speaking, what they really are signalling however, is something even more sinister, and that is, that the old regime has fallen, the country is lost, and our corporate lords and masters can do anything they like, whilst we peasants have to suck it up.
Throughout history, despots and dictators have often tried to change a nation’s flag whenever they’ve assumed power, because the old flag was seen as a symbol of the previous regime, a new flag represents a clean break with the past. Prison, torture, death, and reprisals are the usual punishments for dissidents who try to bring the old flag back.
Behold the Cultural Purge!
In modernity, the UK has been the victim of a slow-moving cultural purge that began with the institutions and their sycophantic flatters claiming that the Cross of St George is somehow or other racist by deliberately associating it with football hooligans and far right groups (read working class). A new flag or even a rebranded flag is a visual declaration of a new beginning, a fresh chapter in the nation’s history, year zero, a great leap forward, meaning that the creators of this new flag on the England shirts are attempting to distance themselves from the symbols and ideologies associated with old England, the previous world, the perfect nadir of almost 1500 years of civilisation as well as it’s rule of law and common law traditions that helped spread liberty and democracy to large parts of the world, now known collectively as the Anglophile World, all of which are in modernity, prosperous and relatively safe countries when compared to their neighbours! It’s an attempt to break with that and replace it with a multi-coloured, multi-ethnic, rainbow identity that represents everything except the straight white man.
It’s yet another globalist fantasy, it’s England as they would like it to be and not as it actually is. Throughout history new rulers have tended to design flags that are reflective of their political ideology, their aspirations, or their values. A new flag is a visible manifestation of the new ruling classes control over the country and its symbols. By altering national symbols, they assert their dominance and authority over the populace, making them visible signs of oppression until enough time passes that the population no longer takes any notice of them. The moment that they become part of the background, a facet of everyday life, something ordinary, the ideological capture is complete!
History also tells us that whilst new regimes are busy changing the national flags of conquered territories it usually coincides with a broader effort to erase the symbols and imagery associated with the times before. This is commonly done by renaming streets and public infrastructure such as railway lines, libraries, civic halls, or buildings and so on, whilst statues deemed to be offensive or undermining of the new regime are removed. Out of sight, scribes and clerics, mouthpieces, sycophants and propagandists for the regime rewrite history books and other tomes important to the culture of the conquered people so that they reflect the new politics. All of these things and much, much, more, have happened recently across the country and indeed across the western world. By deliberately replacing old symbols with new ones, the new rulers aim to reshape the collective memory and sense of narrative of the nation, perverting the nations story in the process, redirecting the river of history so that it bends in direction of their choosing. The older generation who accurately remember the past will at some point die out, the younger generations raised on this type of claptrap are likely to become ever more accepting of the new regime and its symbols until in the end they exist without being questioned.
Overall, changing the flag after conquest is a multifaceted act with political, cultural, and psychological implications. It’s a way for new rulers to assert their authority, redefine national identity, and shape the narrative of that arises naturally out of the country’s collective history. When a new regime comes to power through conquest or revolution, they often seek to solidify their control over the country by reshaping its cultural and historical landscape. Changing the flag is just one part of this broader effort. By eradicating old symbols and replacing them with new ones, the new rulers consolidate their power and authority. They create a visual and cultural landscape that reinforces their legitimacy and suppresses dissent or opposition. This is the reason why lots of ordinary people feel uncomfortable around the pride flag (sorry to single it out) because we’ve had thousands of years of flags being national symbols, a new flag represents a new ruler, that’s why armies carry them into battle. The victor plants his flag in the soil and claims the land as his own. An unwanted flag is always and without question a symbol of conquest. The only right and proper thing to do, is to tear them down because they are visible symbols of oppression, bear this in mind, when you consider that these people think that they are better than us, they meet every year at Davos and decide what it is that they would like to do with our lives…
We must be everything that they do not want us to be. Let’s love our flags, love our histories, be proud of our nations and insist that our cultural works and heritage are left alone. In short, we must be patriots and take a leaf out of the books of the Stoic philosopher of the ancient world such as Hierocles who regarded the nation to be a secondary god, it’s traditions and codes of conduct secondary laws and deemed them to be important because they give the citizens everything that they needed to live a good life. It’s no accident that we trace the beginning of our civilisation to ancient Greece and the pre-Socratics, the body of thought they left us has allowed us to live not only good lives but the best lives possible in modernity. This is something that should be celebrated loudly and proudly, so let us do so with all of our hearts and all of our might! Our flags are not hateful, and neither are they counterproductive to community cohesion only the bigots of the lunatic left think so. We are the state, we are the nation, and we will not be denigrated any longer!
The definite list: Things to look out for.
- Removal of Symbols: The new rulers identify symbols, monuments, and cultural practices that are associated with the previous regime or ideologies that are deemed undesirable. This could include statues of former leaders, flags, national holidays, and even certain types of art or literature.
- Renaming and Rebranding: Streets, squares, buildings, and institutions that bear names associated with the previous regime may be renamed to reflect the new rulers’ values or to honour figures aligned with their ideology. This process is not only symbolic but also practical, as it removes daily reminders of the old regime’s power and influence.
- Revision of Textbooks and Curriculum: Educational materials, including textbooks and curriculum, may be revised to align with the new regime’s ideology and narrative. This could involve rewriting history to glorify certain events or figures while downplaying or omitting others. Textbooks may also be purged of content deemed subversive or contrary to the new regime’s values.
- Censorship and Control of Media: The new regime may impose censorship measures to control the flow of information and suppress dissenting voices. Books, films, and other forms of media that are deemed critical of the regime or its ideology may be banned or censored. State-controlled media may be used to promote the regime’s agenda and propagate its version of history and culture.
- Promotion of New Symbols: Alongside the removal of old symbols, the new regime may promote new symbols, narratives, and cultural practices that reflect its values and ideology. This could include the introduction of new national holidays, the elevation of certain historical figures as heroes, and the adoption of new flags or anthems.
- Reinterpretation of History: The new rulers may also seek to reinterpret the nation’s history to fit their narrative and agenda, for example Winston Churchill was a racist. This could involve downplaying or whitewashing certain events while glorifying others. Changing the flag is part of this effort to rewrite history by creating a new visual symbol that reflects the values and aspirations of the new regime.
