By Max Musson:
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the process of everyday life that we forget about the little kindnesses that contribute so much to the quality of our lives, and if we are to rebuild White communities, we must not only pursue political objectives, we must become the kind of neighbours that other White people will want to live among and we must create an ‘extended family’ that goes beyond those of our people that are our immediate blood relatives.
This video is Russian in origin and while there are undoubtedly many British people who perform similar acts of kindness, there are still a great many elderly or disabled people who live alone and struggle to cope with the everyday tasks of life.
There are many elderly people who have been taken into residential care and for one reason or another have no living relatives, and while we might assume they are well cared for in terms of their physical needs, they might otherwise still spend the bulk of their time feeling alone and unloved in the cold, impersonal, institutional atmosphere of their home, if it was not for your visits and the cards and small gifts that you might bring at Christmas and on their birthday.
Could you ‘adopt’ a lonely elderly person, share an occasional cup of tea and a chat with them and make their life a little brighter?
By Max Musson © 2014
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ConnalOakesHolt
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That’s a very compassionate thought and request Max.
I used to have reason to visit the home of an elderly lass as part of my work. It seemed that that her entire day , once she had managed to get up out of bed and get herself dressed, consisted of sitting in her chair, alone with her memories.
There were two kind neighbours that used to look in on her frequently I found out.
Every month I would go, for five years, I never saw a relative once, infact I assumed that she had no children.
The inevetible visit came when I was informed by one of her kind neighbours of her recent passing. This neighbour informed me that her Son would settle any outstanding bills that she had with me.
How sad that in five years I had never seen him. How much more sad for the woman that had washed him as a baby and put him to bed, comforted him in his boyish fears.
For the roots of our new society to take, they must run deep.
Steve
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It also proves how popular dashboard cams are in Russia, which is why the meteor got covered in such great detail awhile back.
Some roads in town can be 6 to 8 lanes of traffic wide, one near the Kremlin in Moscow is about 10 wide & is one way!
I did also see a video where a impatient motorist tries to overtake, only for the car in front have a passenger wave an AKSU out of the window to dissuade him.
jackdaw
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Nice post Max. Yes, lets become what’s terribly unfashionable to the sneering liberal, decent ! The naturally occuring pre-disposition of our folk that the leftist detests so much.
Shaun
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Yes, we should all do more for others — especially nationalists. I think the act of helping an individual or a movement builds the character needed to challenge the totalitarian left.
Food for thought.
BritishActivism
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This is a silly thing to say and I know it is not the right attitude to take, but I am unsure how apathetic I could be to looking after, say, a life-long liberal democrat voter or former advocate of immigration, Fabians supporters or general liberals who have generated most of this societal breakdown in the first place.
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If they were life-long neighbours and friends it may be a bit different as you are used to each other, but strangers, people who may have have sneered, mocked, organised against us as a people…..I think I would have a hard time putting all that to one side to care for them, especially if they still disagree with us and would resent people like us helping them if they ‘knew the truth’ about our views and positions and the rationale for doing so. I would be tempted to say ‘let them eat cake’, or whatever the best comparison may be.
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But how would one know their mind? I don’t know – and I realise that it is a bit cold hearted and not in the overall favour of our own kind to be so petty minded about it. If we were already living in those proposed enclaves of like minded folk, it may be a bit different as we would know we are really looking after each other and our interests.
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I guess that I have lost a bit of compassion and empathy for others and I am not yet community spirited enough to put my bitterness to one side. I suppose I could lend a hand here or there in an emergency or whatever, but right now, in all honesty, I am not the kind of person that would step in and intervene in some strangers life. Maybe as I get older and wiser I will have a change of perspective.
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It is a good idea though and I do support the general theme of “looking after our own” and being more active at doing so than just crossing a box on a ballot paper and thinking we are doing our bit.
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I just think that with the way society has gone (and which I think I am a part of and product of), it will take quite a long time to foster the same kinds of care and compassion for others in a society that we may once have had.
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These days, I think we are much more selfish, much more insular, and just more generally reluctant to “get involved” in other peoples affairs unless we are specifically asked to do so.
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Apologies for not being all that positive and encouraging, but I think it is important to be honest about how things may currently stand and what kind of obstacles we have to overcome even on these more smaller matters.
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A plan, for example, that relies on the assumption that we are all willing and wanting to take part in these kinds of activities (and that there are no reasons as to why it cannot be done and taken up on a larger scale) is not going to come to fruition unless it takes into consideration how detached many of us are from our own kind now, even our own families.
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Some people are better suited to it than others I suppose, which is why we tend to have people seeking work in caring roles, taking up caring jobs, or who are just more community spirited than others.
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Hopefully things are not as bleak as I feel them to be and that an initiative to be more community spirited will be a great success.
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I have every hope and trust that nationalists could be good neighbours, uphold the kinds of values and virtues that are attractive to society and be areas that people would seek to be a part of. Hopefully, as part of this wider effort to stand ourselves apart, these qualities and community spiritedness will become more ‘natural’ and normal than they may feel to some of us today.
John
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Wasted words Max. I am an OAP living alone, crippled with arthritis which prevents me from going out unless the weather is kind to me. I cannot walk very far, not even to the local shop. Thank God for the Internet, I have to rely on my computer to order my shopping online, do my banking, pay my bills etc. The only visitor I get is a cleaning lady for two hours every fortnight.
I’m like the lady that ConnalOakesHolt describes, once I manage to get up, wash, shave, have breakfast I spend the rest of the day either reading or watching YouTube, online TV and reading blogs etc. or just sit with my memories to keep me company. My “friends” have all disappeared, and I have a daughter who visits me on my birthday and drops by at Christmas to bring me a present. I do have neighbours but they don’t visit or have anything to do with me; too wrapped up in their own lives I suppose.
Last Christmas my daughter paid me a visit on the 22nd Dec for two hours and after she had gone I was completely alone until Jan 2 this year. During that period I did not go out, no-one phoned, or visited. I was cut off from the world for 11 days; the worst Christmas I had ever spent in my life.
Days go by without me even seeing or speaking to anyone. I don’t have a car, so it is difficult if I need to go to the doctors or anywhere in fact. I do have a bus pass, but the bus stop is just that bit too far to walk to!
I am not looking for sympathy or asking for help. Even though I am old and alone, I still have my pride and I will not beg for help. I wrote this comment just to show you that you are just wasting your time asking people to “adopt” a lonely old person. How could I trust a complete stranger who knocks on the door saying he/she wants to chat or have a cup of tea?
Max Musson
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Hi John, I don’t expect you to trust a stranger who just knocks on your door, but I don’t believe my words are wasted. I visit lots of elderly people and I have adopted on old lady that I visit regularly and for whom I perform various vital tasks that enable her to have a tolerable life even though she is disabled. Furthermore, I know of other people who do the same. Perhaps you should email me ([email protected]) and if I can I will try to put you in touch with someone trustworthy in your area. I wouldn’t expect you to trust them immediately, but it might provide you with an initial introduction that could lead to a long-term friendship.
Rob
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That is a sad story John. I hope Max puts you in touch with someone.
John
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I just read the comment by BritishActivism. I am a Nationalist, and if his attitude to his fellow men is typical of most other Nationalists, then even if he wanted to help me I would tell him where to go and give him a white feather.
When some-one needs a helping hand politics and religion should not enter into it, or be used as an excuse not to offer help. Hasn’t he ever heard the parable of the Good Samaritan?
He forgets that one day he will be old, if he lives that long, and he may find himself in a similar situation to me.
BritishActivism
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Hello John.
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I would just like to say that I don’t think my comment is going to be typical of most other nationalists, and I did explicitly state myself that my cynical attitude was very wrong headed. I had hoped to convey that it was more a case of my own personal disillusionment and bitterness talking when it comes to politics and such.
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In the ‘real world’, away from the bubble of on-line nationalism, I doubt it would make the slightest bit difference to me. In fact, I know it wouldn’t, not on my half of the fence anyway. (Whether the recipient would be so welcoming of somebody with our / my views is another matter, if it became apparent).
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I do not think would turn down anyone in need of help if they genuinely needed it and indicated that they would like to receive it – regardless of politics, religion, or other factors.
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I do think that there are some problems though in current society, which you allude to yourself – and which may have brought you to the view that it is a ‘waste of time’.
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In my not so great way of expressing it, I was trying to bring these kinds of difficulties up.
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For example, you mention that you hardly see some members of your own family throughout the year and that your next door neighbours don’t visit your home or really have much to do with things.
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I myself have extended family, cousins, uncles and such that I never see, who I would not even know if I passed on the street. We are strangers, have nothing to really say to each other and no deep tie that would keep a chance meeting going, especially over a distance.
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That is just how things have developed with past splits in family relationships, folk going off in different circles, to different localities. Me and my brother hardly call or visit each other even though we are fairly close in terms of family and geography. I am sure we would if we need to do, but he has a family to look out for, works extremely long hours and so on, so things just go on from day to day and week to week.
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Many other families are even much more distant than that these days and that is just the way it now is with some people, not all people, but some – and I thought it important to be honest about it and deal with the situation that I feel is actually present in society rather than having an imagined one where we are living in some kind of ‘Postman Pat’ village where everyone has a smile and a chance at offering a cup of tea and a natter.
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There are newspaper articles about parts of London and other cities, for example, where neighbours of some 20 years standing do not know each others first name and have never spoken more than five words to each other. Fortunately it is not like that everywhere and that we have a chance to bring neighbourliness back.
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You say that nobody else really phones or visits, that you think people are too wrapped up in their own lives – and that as you seek to keep your pride, that you would not outright ask for help anyway and that you would also not really trust a complete stranger knocking at your door that is trying to enter into your life out of the blue.
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But that is exactly the kind of thing I am driving at John. I may have gone about expressing it in a bad way, but these are the kinds of obstacles I also see at the present time.
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As I say, some families are not as close as they used to be, they are often scattered all over the country or indeed all over the world. Even those who may live fairly locally may hardly call or visit.
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Whether it is busy lives, workloads, looking after their own children, a case of out of sight out of mind, or aspects of all the above, I do not know. But I think it has become more common in this country than it used to be and that it is a problem that needs to be overcome and acknowledged in proposed projects like this.
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If we are not in a society that looks after and calls in on their own family and immediate neighbours, perhaps do not know their names or ever speak to them, then all I am saying is that it may be difficult for some folk (like me) to just approach people they do not know and offer that lending hand out of nowhere, perhaps even assuming they need a lending hand when they don’t.
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For that to work, it has to be mutual. You see, I am also well aware of the pride that some people have. They do not want to be seen as a charity case, or that they are incapable or doing something. I would feel the same. I think that the carer or good Samaritan has to have the right approach and rapport so that it is not awkward or ‘forced’ on either sides part. They might not get along or ‘gel’ properly, but of course that is not to be known until it is tried.
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The British National Party once had some idea or campaign to offer tins of soup to ‘elderly’ people as they might be struggling to ‘heat or eat’.
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This was a great idea and a good sentiment – but if I had rocked up to my immediate next door neighbours door, who are in their 70s and 80s, and offered them some tins of soup this winter, they would have thought I was completely condescending and a bit of a loon. They may well have been a bit insulted by it.
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It has to be the right people and the right situation. Just because they are elderly or may walk with a stick or something does not mean they are always in need or want somebody interfering.
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If it had been a stranger at your door (like you say yourself) would you have trusted it?
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Would you start to worry that the said person was going to start stealing from your house or trying to get you to change your will or something once they had wormed their way into your life? It can and it does happen. I have seen it happen, even from authorised / official ‘carer’ groups. I can therefore understand the difficulty some people would have in terms of trusting people in these kinds of situations.
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To me, with all this stuff in the air (whether real or imagined) it is not as simple as just going out the back door and just “adopting” somebody. Especially if you don’t know who to adopt, where, or whether they want to be adopted or not. In my clumsy way, I was trying to convey some of the potential problems with the practicalities of this proposal on both sides, whether it be the care giver or the care receiver.
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There is perhaps a bit of a catch 22 situation going on, where I stated that I would probably not go and scour the neighbourhood for somebody to try and adopt and thus ‘intrude’ on their lives out of nowhere. (Put the politics etc out of mind, as I know and stated I was being silly and wrong headed about it).
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However, if there was somebody I knew or had been introduced to that indicated they would like some help from time to time, or would just like a chat now and again, and it was a mutual thing, well, that is _*completely different*_ isn’t it?
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It certainly would be for me, as that ‘barrier’ on both sides would be dropped from the outset.
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The problem is how to bridge that gap between one thing and another. For people do not generally like to intrude into other peoples affairs, particularly those they do not know – and people on the receiving end are often proud and independent minded and do not like to give off the signs that they are perhaps lonely or need help getting around and such.
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However, I think this is what Max is aiming at with this proposal.
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For example, you may like to get a bit of assistance from time to time to get around to different places, generally have a bit of a natter about this and that – and Max may be able to introduce somebody who can be the person that will enjoy doing that.
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Yet I cannot help but notice that the introduction in this particular case would be specifically ‘within’ our own grouping here as nationalists at Western Spring. How to roll this out to general society is something I am unsure of for all the reasons I bring up above.
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However, I am not so sure it is as bleak or as bad as I state it is (and that you may feel it is).
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I am absolutely positive that there are places, people, situations, where this kind of project could be a great success – and Max himself is actively taking part in such activities right now. I think it will be even easier to take up in the future, should Western Spring develop as planned.
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This shows it can be done when the opportunities present themselves.
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I apologise for my terrible attitude and cynicism earlier John. I already knew it was silly of me to be thinking that way. I don’t really mean it, I think it was just my depression talking.
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I would like to think that if the right circumstances came along and a mutual situation arrived, we could all try and lend that little bit of support to others with absolutely no strings attached.
Max Musson
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Well said!
John
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Wow, that was some comment! I would say it was more of an article.
Thanks for the reply, now it’s my turn to feel put down. I know I came over as a bitter, twisted old man bur having been let down so many times I seem to have developed a bad attitude to people, especially when years ago I used to help people less able than myself by taking them out, doing the shopping etc. Being a Quaker (The Society of Friends) this is what we did, or do.
Now that I’m disabled my friends have disappeared, and I think “Where have they gone now that I need help sometimes?”
Still, let us not dwell on this subject, you must have better things to write about on Western Spring.
Again, thanks for you discourse on the subject.
BritishActivism
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On the contrary John, it was me who was originally being the bitter and twisted one.
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Given the situation you describe, I think you are fully justified to be a little bit bitter about what has happened to you – and you were absolutely right to shake me by the collar and make me collect my thoughts a bit more thoroughly.
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I hope things take a better turn for you this year.
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Regards,
B.A.