Breed The Secret Design To Maintain Racial Inequality Among The Despised Classes (18 page)

At this point in Hannibal’s speech there
could be heard from the animalists in the audience murmuring and
even a few scornful chuckles. Immediately Hannibal fired back,
“Don’t laugh! According to our scientists this planet once moved
through the universe for millions of years without animals and it
can do so again some day if we forget that we owe our higher
existence, not to the ideas of a few crazy ideologists, but to the
knowledge and ruthless application of Nature's stern and rigid
laws!” Something told me it was Darwin that reached those
conclusions. Hannibal continued, “Everything we admire on this
earth today science, art, and technology is only the creative
product of a few species and originally perhaps of one breed. On
them depends the existence of this whole culture. If they perish,
the beauty of this earth will sink into the grave with them.

However much the soil, for example, can
influence animalkind, the result of the influence will always be
different depending on the breed in question. The low fertility of
a living space may spur the one breed to the highest achievements.
While in others it will only be the cause of bitterest poverty and
final undernourishment with all its consequences. The inner nature
of the breed in question will always determine the end result. What
leads the one to starvation trains the other to hard work. All
great cultures of the past perished only because the originally
creative breed died out from blood poisoning. The ultimate cause of
such a decline was their forgetting that all culture depends on
intelligent animals and not the other way around. Therefore in
order to preserve a certain culture the intelligent animal that
creates it must be preserved. This preservation is bound up with
the rigid law of necessity and the right to victory of the best and
stronger in this world. Those who want to live, let them fight, and
those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do
not deserve to live. Even if this seems cruel to some, this is how
it is!” As Hannibal said this again I noticed Darwin nodding his
head in agreement. Hannibal continued, “Assuredly, however by far
the harder fate is that which strikes…” Hannibal slammed his paw
down on the podium, “that which strikes the animal who thinks he
can overcome Nature, but in the last analysis only mocks her!
Distress, misfortune, and diseases are her answer! The animal who
misjudges and disregards the breeding laws actually forfeits the
happiness that seems destined to be his. He thwarts the triumphal
march of the best breed and hence also the precondition for all
animal progress. He remains burdened with all the sensibility of
intelligent animal, while living in the animal realm of helpless
misery.

It is pointless to argue which breed or
breeds were the original representatives of higher animal culture
and hence the real founders of all that we sum up under the word
‘animalkind.’ It is simpler to raise this question with regard to
the present, and here an easy, clear answer results. The entire
animal culture, all the results of art, science, and technology
that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative
product of the Thoroughbred Feline. This very fact leads us to the
obvious conclusion that he alone was the founder of all higher
animals. He therefore represents the prototype of all that we
understand by the word ‘animal.’ He is the Prometheus of animalkind
from whose bright forehead the divine spark of genius has sprung at
all times. He is forever kindling anew that fire of knowledge that
illuminated the night of silent mysteries and thus caused higher
animal to climb the path to mastery over the other beings of this
earth. Exclude him and perhaps after a few thousand years darkness
will again descend on the earth. Animal culture will pass and the
world will turn into a desert.” Although I was searching for
answers, I never expected to find a history this obscure.
Nevertheless it struck me as odd the way that Hannibal skipped over
countless generations of animals in his search for the founders of
animalkind. Were there no significant events that molded history
into the world we see today? Hannibal continued, “If we were to
divide animalkind into three groups, the founders of culture, the
bearers of culture and the destroyers of culture, only the
Thoroughbred Feline could be considered as the representative of
the first group. From him originate the foundations and walls of
all intelligent creation. Only the outward form and color are
determined by the changing traits of character of the various
breeds. He provides the mightiest building stones and plans for all
animal progress. Only the execution corresponds to the nature of
the varying animals and breeds. If beginning today all further
Thoroughbred Feline influence on wild animals should stop, assuming
that Cuyamonga should somehow perish, the present rise in science
and technology might continue for a short time but in a few years
the well would dry up. The indigenous animal would continue to
benefit, but the present culture would freeze and sink back into
the slumber from which it was awakened decades ago by the wave of
Thoroughbred Feline culture. If it is established that a breed
receives the most essential basic materials of its culture from
foreign breeds, that it assimilates and adapts them, and that then,
if further external influence is lacking, it rigidifies again and
again, such a breed may be designated as ‘culture-bearing,’ but
never as ‘culture-creating.’ An examination of the various breeds
from this standpoint points to the fact that practically none of
them were originally culture founding, but almost always culture
bearing. Approximately the following picture of their development
always results. Thoroughbred Feline breeds, often absurdly small
numerically, enslave foreign species. They are stimulated by the
special living conditions of the new territory such as fertility or
climatic conditions. With the assistance of a multitude of
lower-type beings standing at their disposal as helpers, they
develop the intellectual and organizational capacities that lay
dormant within them. Often in a few centuries they create cultures,
which originally bear all the inner characteristics of their
nature. In the end, however, the conquerors transgress against the
principle of blood purity, to which they had first followed. They
begin to mix with the subjugated inhabitants and thus end their own
existence. After a thousand years and more, the last visible trace
of the former master animals is often seen in an impotent ambition
for progress, which its blood left behind in the subjugated breed.
Or it’s manifest in a petrified culture, which it had originally
created. For, once the actual and spiritual conqueror lost himself
in the blood of the subjected breeds, the fuel for the torch of
animal progress was lost! Just as, through the blood of the former
masters, the ambition preserved a feeble gleam in their memory,
likewise in cultural life there remains a glimmer of glory left
over from the remaining creations of the former masters. They shine
through all the returned savagery and too often inspire the
thoughtless observer of the moment with the opinion that he beholds
the picture of the present breed before him. He in fact is only
gazing into the mirror of the past. It is possible that such savage
breeds will a second time, come into contact with the master breed
that once brought it culture. The memory of former encounters will
not necessarily be present. Notwithstanding the remnant of the
former master blood will unconsciously turn toward the new arrival.
What was first possible only by compulsion can now succeed through
the animals’ own will. A new cultural wave makes its entrance and
continues until those who have brought it are again submerged in
the blood of foreign breeds. It is impossible to say for sure how
many times this cycle has repeated itself throughout history.

It will be the task of a future cultural and
world history to carry on researches into this subject and not to
suffocate in the rendering of external facts, as is so often the
case with our present historical science.

This mere sketch of the development of
‘culture-bearing’ breeds gives a picture of the growth, of the
activity, and-the decline-of the true culture-founders of this
earth, the Thoroughbred Felines themselves. The cultures which they
found, in such cases are nearly always decisively determined by the
existing soil, the given climate, and-the subjected breeds. This
last item, to be sure, is almost the most decisive. The more
primitive the technical foundations for a cultural activity, the
more necessary is the presence of sub animal helpers or slaves who,
organizationally assembled and employed, must replace the force of
the machine. Without this possibility of using lower animal beings,
the Thoroughbred Feline would never have been able to take his
first steps toward his future culture. Just as without the help of
various suitable beasts, which he knew how to tame, he would not
have arrived at a technology, which is now gradually permitting him
to do without these beasts. Thus, for the formation of higher
cultures the existence of lower animal types was one of the most
essential preconditions, since they alone were able to compensate
for the lack of technical aids without which a higher development
is not conceivable. It is certain that the first culture of
animalkind was based on the use of lower animal beings. Only after
the subjected breeds are first enslaved will the conquered warrior
draw the plow. Only pacifistic fools can regard this as a sign of
animal depravity, failing to realize that this development had to
take place in order to reach the point where today these
peacemongers could force their drivel on the world. The progress of
animalkind is like climbing an endless staircase. It is impossible
to climb higher without first taking the lower steps. Thus, the
Thoroughbred Feline had to take the road to which reality directed
him and not the one that would appeal to the imagination of a
modern pacifist. The road of reality is hard and difficult, but in
the end it leads us where our pacifist friend would like to bring
animalkind by merely dreaming. Hence it is no accident that the
first cultures arose in places where the Thoroughbred Feline, in
his encounters with lower animals, subjugated them and bent them to
his will. They then became the first technical instrument in the
service of a developing culture. Thus the road, which the
Thoroughbred Feline had to take, was clearly marked out. As a
conqueror he subjected the lower beings and regulated their
practical activity under his command, according to his will and for
his aims. But in directing them to a useful, though arduous
activity, he not only spared the life of those he subjected but he
ultimately gave them a fate that was better than their previous
so-called freedom. As long as he ruthlessly upheld the master
attitude, not only did he really remain master, but also the
preserver and increaser of culture. This is of course because
culture was based exclusively on his abilities and hence on his
actual survival. As soon as the subjected species began to become
domesticated and probably approached the conqueror in language, the
sharp dividing wall between master and servant fell. The
Thoroughbred Feline gave up the purity of his blood and therefore
lost the paradise, which he had created for himself. He became
submerged in the racial mixture. Gradually at first, then more and
more he lost his cultural capacity. Not only mentally but also
physically he eventually began to resemble the subjected wild
animals more than his own ancestors. For a time he could live on
the existing cultural benefits, but then petrifaction set in and he
fell a prey to oblivion. Thus cultures and empires collapsed to
make place for new formations. Blood mixture and the resultant drop
in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old
cultures. Animals do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by
the loss of that force of resistance, which is contained only in
pure blood. All who are not of good breed in this world are chaff!
And all occurrences in world history are only the expression of the
breed’s instinct of self-preservation, in the good or bad
sense.

The question of the inner causes of the
Thoroughbred Feline’s importance can be answered to the effect that
they are to be sought less in a natural instinct of
self-preservation than in the special type of its expression. The
Thoroughbred Feline is not greatest in his mental qualities as
such, but in the extent of his willingness to put all his abilities
in the service of the community. In him the instinct of
self-preservation has reached the noblest form. He willingly
subordinates his own ego to the life of the community and even
sacrifices it if necessary. Giving one's own life for the existence
of the community represents the ultimate sense of sacrifice. It is
this alone that prevents what animal paws have built from being
overthrown by savage animal claws or destroyed by Nature. This kind
of activity can be described as a fulfillment of duty. It means not
to be self-sufficient but rather to serve the community. The basic
attitude from which such activity arises is called idealism. By
this we understand only the individual's capacity to make
sacrifices for the community and for his fellow beast. As soon as
egoism becomes the ruler of a breed, the bands of order are
loosened and in the chase after their own happiness animals fall
from grace into real depravity. Yes, even posterity forgets the
animals who have only served their own advantage and praises the
heroes who have renounced their own happiness.”

At this apparent conclusion to Hannibal’s
rather long and pedantic speech the Speciest’s broke into applause
and cheering. After a number of minutes the chairman finally
succeeded in restraining the crowds by banging his gavel and
shouting, “Order! We must have Order!” He then addressed Hannibal.
“With all due respect Field Marshal, you were summoned to address
the outcry that has been raised over the monstrous living
conditions of the inhabitants of Lumpenproleteria. Instead you have
used this honorable assembly as a means to promote your territory’s
ideological views. This is highly inappropriate.” Hannibal appeared
as if he would accept this reproof with quiet dignity. However he
then shrugged his shoulders and objected, “Your honor, I was just
about to address the subject of Lumpenproleteria. I just felt that
in order for the assembly to understand Cuyamonga’s position with
regard to Lumpenproleteria, first they needed to understand the
context. In other words you need to have a clear picture of the
Thoroughbred Feline in order to understand his contrast.” Again the
chairman interrupted, “Everyone here understands your ideological
positions. We don’t need such an in depth analysis. In the future
please refrain from proselytizing. Now are you prepared to discuss
the living conditions of the Lumpenproleterians?” “Yes your
honor.”