On Drugs and the Way Ahead for Nationalism
The Two Are Not Connected, But They Are Linked!
By Nick Griffin
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There’s something very strange going on with drug use in Britain. And the confusion centres mainly on Generation X.
With younger Brits, the facts and commonly accepted truths match up: According to official statistics, the use of drugs among Generation Z (born 1997 to 2012) is markedly down on that recorded among previous generations.
This ties in with the known facts and anecdotal evidence that Gen Z are more conservative than recent previous generations, with very markedly higher rates of Christian belief and churchgoing, lower rates of alcohol use, casual sex and other aspects of the old ‘permissive society’.
But with Generation X (born 1965- 1980), the figures – which also show very significant reductions in self-confessed drug use – are drastically at odds with the anecdotal evidence. It’s not just newspaper reports of phenomena such as near endemic cocaine use among young and not-so-young professionals and middle-class housewives coked off their tits after the school run. It’s also – at least according to many people I’ve discussed it with – a known fact of real life in their own local communities.
I’d much appreciate your help in squaring this circle. What do you think is going on here? Are the statistics being massaged down? Certainly, the failure of the police to enforce anti-drugs laws will automatically push down the rate of recorded offences. This would very easily turn a steady or even rising use of drugs in real life into a situation which was improving on paper.
So are the liberal elite downplaying the problem? Or is there a groundless ‘moral panic’, fanned by the need for sensationalist stories and clickbait to keep up sales and audience figures among the legacy and alt media alike? How do you see this; what are your experiences? Are Generation X less decadant than we are told? Are Generation Z any better, or perhaps even worse?
What I have no doubt about is that hard drug use (in which I include skunk cannabis, which is clearly very much more potent and harmful to mental health than the mild stuff which titivated us Boomers while in the sixth form and university) is a very real problem.
Hard drugs clearly are being used by far too many people, of various ages, as an anaesthetic for the pain of lonely living in an atomised society, for lives without community, identity, pride, purpose or hope.
The WEF’s Yuval Harari is most definitely not my favourite analyst or ideologue, but he did at least give us a frank insight into a question which should exercise decent governments as well as would-be global technocrats: What to do with the mass of working people whose work is about to be taken over by AI and, a little further down the line, by robots?
“Keep them occupied with VR video games and drugs” is the official global elite party line response to that one, although I would forgive you if you take the cynical view that that’s only window dressing for an actual ‘elite’ Deep Green ambition simply to get rid of billions of ‘useless eaters’.
The coming impact of AI and robotisation on some of the fundamental assumptions of our whole society is at least now being mooted. An adult discussion is needed on the looming impact of this new industrial revolution on all sorts of key issues, including immigration, the stability or otherwise of multicultural societies, and the flight from uncomfortable reality into drugs, video games and false ‘identities’.
In due course, I intend to examine, and to encourage forward-looking nationalists to consider, these issues and to debate and propose solutions. Looking forwards, having concern for future generations, is one of the key things which distinguishes the long-termist creed of nationalism from the short-term erraticism of populism.
We will need to work out ideas for putting such problems right, when it comes to the Great Rebuilding, which will come after the darkness of the Convergence of Catastrophes which must be endured and survived first.
But before we start investing energy in building castles in the future sky, we need to concentrate on proposing and developing practical initiatives to help our people to secure that future in the first place. As the saying goes, “you have to be in it to win it”.
Accordingly, while including among my essays here with comment on current news stories, aspects of history and various other random subjects which I find interesting (and hope you do too), I will over the next couple of weeks be publishing here the first drafts of the core parts of a future book on What Is To Be Done.
I want a debate. I need hese need discussing, since constructive criticism, requests for clarification and sensibly expressed concerns will be invaluable. My aim is to produce what I hope and believe will be a definitive and seminal nationalist text, not just for Britain but for our people all over the world. Thanks for being with me on this journey!
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